A pequena produção na cana-de-açúcar no município de Santa Rita-PB.

Abstract

The small production unit as a simple commodity generator has a relevant relevance in the production of sugarcane, in the area of ​​sugarcane cultivation in the State of Paraíba and in the Santa Rita Plant, the basis of our study, located in the municipality of the same name and which I receive approximately 30% of its consumption from small sugarcane producers. A study was made to know the relevance of the role of these producers to the scientific knowledge of the agricultural reality in the municipality of Santa Pita, the largest producer of sugar cane in the State of Paraíba. It was also tried to verify how the relation of supplier of sugar cane to the mill, turns this category of producers into dependents, either in the form of simple suppliers or. in some cases, in the sale of its workforce to the mill. It was taken as an empirical reference the small suppliers of sugarcane to the Santa Rita plant owners, tenants and squatters and analyzed the submission of these small productive units to industrial capital. At first lunar "it was shown how the capitalist expansion has degraded the living conditions of the small suppliers of sugarcane. Secondly, it was found that the choice of the small producer to try to maintain his of life has been the supply of cane to the agroindustry. This dependence costs you a price: the increase of your work day and that of your family members. Parallel to the production of sugarcane, in some cases, the cultivation of subsistence crops, such as cassava, maize and beans, occurred. These apparently independent activities are part of the same process of capitalist exploitation as these productions parallel to cane production are reducing the value of the labor force invested in sugarcane production by increasing the surplus labor exploited by industrial capital . the small production contributes to the increase of the profits of the capitalist, without, however, participating in them. within this context the small producer without conditions to invest and without the power to increase his purchasing power, always remains as an element dependent of the capitalist system.