Tomate industrial: gênese e desenvolvimento da produção integrada do tomate nas áreas irrigadas de Petrolina e Juazeiro.

Abstract

In this work, the author analizes the elements that allow us to understand the genesis and development of the integrated production of industrial tomato in irrigated areas of Petrolina / Juazeiro cities. To do this, he tried to understand how the fundiary structure was historiacally formed, the industrial strategies and the modern agricultural producers nature. The production of industrial tomato in this region was the result of its deslocament from the meridional region of Brazil. Its development led the Dipolo area to become the main producer of this culture. Which are the reasons that explain the migration of the tomato agroindustrial activity ? What kind is the nature of the capitals that constitute the manufacturers in the Dipolo area and what strategies determine the amount of their investiments ? Who is this modernized producer ? How is the organization of the procuctive process characterized and what kind of relationships does it maintain with the industry and state ? Which are the perspectives of the integrated production development ? These are some issues focused in this work. The arguments that are introduced constitute a querying of the conceptions based on the Agroindustrial Complex thesis about the integration between two elements of the new agricultural pattern: Agriculture / Industry and the modern familiar producer.