Agroindústria e pequena produção: integração, modernização e dependência. (O caso da Nestlé no munícipio de Bocaiúva/MG).

Abstract

The market domain as well as the changes in the production, utilized by the great industrial capital, mainly the agrondustries in less developed countries, where the small familiar farm, still tecnically late, has an expressive econmical influence, becomes an important axample on the study of the capital advance in rural áreas and in the agricutural subordination to industry. This research's objective was to analyse the strategies used by Nestlé in the milkmaid basin occupation and management in the North of Minas state and in the integration process of the Bocaiúva county's small milk farmers. It was shown that this kind of partnership has taken, slowly, the small farmer to a situation of dependence and subordination, as it changes their production unit to wait for, exclusively, the milk production, making of this, mostly, their only outcome. It was still observed that the farmer decision of selling his milk to Nestlé occurs basically due to the marked circunstances, typical of the oligopsony situation. The lack of incitement in developping other activities makes the farmer more and more captive to the cattle breeding of milk, Therefore, the future these little cattlemen from Bocaiúva county, if externai facts don't modify this board, walks to a major agroindustry's dependence and subordination, making them dependent of the Nestlé agroindustry in a high degree.