O contexto histórico e os desdobramentos das ações dos circuitos produtivos na produção cafeeira do Distrito de Mato Grosso, Rio de Contas – BA, entre os anos de 1970 a 2022.

Abstract

The historical transformations that have taken place in the Brazilian agrarian space have produced countless challenges for rural people. At different times, economic factors, represented by the export market, which exploits and accumulates wealth, have determined and influenced the most diverse changes throughout the national territory, on different scales. This context includes coffee production in the District of Mato Grosso, which, in much the same way as other production areas in Brazil, was and continues to be marked by intense transformations and adaptations influenced above all by the capitalist system of production, represented in this case by production circuits. This structure, part of the dynamics of the market, drives and amplifies, in different layers and stages of the production chain of various products, the unequal conditions of profit distribution, subordination to capital and, in the context of agricultural production carried out on small properties, changes in the traditional characteristics of farmers. In view of this, this research aimed to analyse the socio-spatial, historical and economic reorganisation of the District of Mato Grosso, Rio de Contas - Bahia, with an emphasis on the dynamics of coffee production, between 1970 and 2022, in the face of the influence of production circuits. Based on a qualitative-quantitative methodology, using a sample survey of farmers in the district, together with theoretical background studies, as well as research with other subjects in the local production chain, and information collected from secondary data, it was found that the active and cyclical changes in the local coffee-growing and, more recently, fruit-growing agrarian space were intensively marked by the actions of the production circuits, which are both present and reproduced. These conditions have revealed the urgent and necessary introduction of intervention measures, including the proposal to create a diversified rural cooperative in the district, with the aim of establishing, in addition to breaking up part of this structure, the search for farmers' autonomy, the unity and strengthening of family production, and the feeling of belonging to the rural environment for rural people.