¿Qué tal una taza de café?

Agricultura familiar y agricultura empresarial en la producción de café en Minas Gerais

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the cultivation of coffee in Minas Gerais and especially in the Mesoregion of Noroeste and Vale do Jequitinhonha and Mucuri. This crop is extremely important in the field's production, as it effectively contributes to the country's GDP, and to the economy of the state of Minas Gerais. The economic importance is reflected in other areas such as the political and strategic importance of these productive spaces. Our proposal is to build an analysis from the database made available by the 2017 Agricultural Census, the last census carried out in Brazilian territory to draw a profile of Minas Gerais producers and analyze how family and business agriculture are distributed in the territory of Minas Gerais. The analysis also elucidates the places and forms of production that most need state help, based on the implementation of public policies. The conclusions point to the presence of an unequal agrarian structure that directly interferes in the form of coffee production in the analyzed territory.