Socio-regional transformations as a function of the consolidation and modernization of the coffee plantations on the Minas Gerais Cerrado

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  • Patricio Aureliano Silva CARNEIRO
  • Maurício Paulo Ferreira FONTES
  • Rosa FONTES
  • João Carlos KER

Abstract

The trends and regional implications of the spatial changes in the coffee plantations in the macro and micro-regions of Minas Gerais State, in the context of the Cerrado development programs are important to explain the socio-regional transformations in the State. Such programs have generated several inter-regional differentiations provoking substantial changes in the spatial distribution of the state agriculture as a whole, which was and still is being driven towards to the Minas Gerais Cerrado, based on a high technology philosophy. At the same time, the land property and income concentration increased, the importance of the labor factor decreased and the dislocation of small producers occurred. Under the agricultural policy view, the major challenge for the promotion of a more equalized socio-spatial development in the rural space will be the strengthening of the small producers of the macro-regions which are outside the agricultural modernization axis. Key words: Agricultural Modernization, Minas Gerais State Cerrado, Coffee Plantation.

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Vol. 30 No. 3 (2005)

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