TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN SOYBEAN PRODUCTION AND ITS IMPACT ON LABOR IN THE SOUTH OF GOIÁS STATE, BRAZIL

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/pat.v40i3.6770

Keywords:

Factorial analysis, agriculture modernization, technology

Abstract

The expansion of soy production in the Goiás State has caused changes in its agricultural productive structure. However, besides bringing economical progress, the adoption of the technology imposed by capital resulted in changes in the social relations of production and labor. The study has focused on the analysis of social costs, specifically referring to labor, applied to technological development in agriculture, on the South of Goiás State, Brazil. So, factorial analysis was used, making it possible to identify the municipalities that use technology in the most and least intensive way. The study reveals that the municipalities with higher indexes of technology use are Rio Verde, Jataí, Catalão, Morrinhos, and Piracanjuba, due to an increasing process of migration from rural properties to cities, decreasing of workplaces on farming and loss of life quality to farmers and their families.

KEY-WORDS: Factorial analysis; agriculture modernization; technology.

 

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Author Biographies

  • Caroline Sales Arruda, Federal University of Goiás
    Graduada em Gestão do Agronegócio - UFV; mestranda no Programa de Pós-graduação em Agronegócios - Escola de Agronomia e Engenharia de Alimentos - UFG.
  • Sônia Milagres Teixeira, Federal University of Goiás

    Doutorado em Economia Rural pela Purdue University, Estados Unidos; Pós-Doutorado pela University of Minnesota, Estados Unidos; Professor titular da Universidade Federal de Goiás.

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Published

2010-08-25

Issue

v. 40, n. 3, Jul./Sep. 2010

Section

Rural Development and Agribusiness

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How to Cite

ARRUDA, C. S.; TEIXEIRA, S. M. TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN SOYBEAN PRODUCTION AND ITS IMPACT ON LABOR IN THE SOUTH OF GOIÁS STATE, BRAZIL. Pesquisa Agropecuária Tropical [Agricultural Research in the Tropics], v. 40, n. 3, p. 257–265, 25 Aug.2010.