A cotonicultura familiar e suas relações de comercialização no município de Pirassununga-SP.

Abstract

This work concentrates on the case study about the production of family cotton farmers and its relationships maintained in the cotton market in Pirassununga City, in the state of São Paulo. The objective is to analyze the different commercialization links accomplished between the family cotton farmers and the cotton gin companies, and to reveal which one guarantees the largest gain, therefore, the most compensatory. After the first decade of the 20th. Century, the cotton production spread throughly in the city, through the small production, motivated by the favorable relative prices of the cotton with the support received by the local government, and wich the appearance of the Spinning and Weaving industry of Pirassununga, staying small, however, under the domains of the commercial capital and sometimes usurios capital, intervening to the trade process of the cotton and inhibiting the direct action of the small cotton production of the marker. This action of the commercial and usually capital, started to break up in the decade of 40, when the small producers obtained their financial autonomy through hard labor, and other production means, being able in this way, to relate directly with the market in the intention of getting better prices. Fruit of this, event family production in the city of Pirassununga maintains the tradition, leading intensively in the cotton production since the decade of 70 and getting high indexes of productivity for having of na appropriate technological base. The cotton culture demands high investments and it makes the family cotton farmers appeal to bank financing in order to finance the production, in the same way, it needs to accomplish the sale and to obtain links that guarantee the payment of the debit commitments, the vital conditions of the family and that compensates the investments. In the case study, we verified that among the different entails maintained by the cotton family farmers, the Algosul Ltda. cotton company is the one of better advantage, having the option of using the services rendered by this company that benefits the cotton of the cotton farmer and it exercises the sale in consignment in strategic moments, based on the market demands for the cotton in feather, getting higher quotations and guaranteeing larger and compensatory revenues to the family cotton farmers. The ones who engage in this link of commercialization option have no commitment with the financial system of credit, possessing na accumulated capital and could opt for better sales.