A QUESTÃO AGRÁRIA E O DESENVOLVIMENTO NACIONAL.

Abstract

This dissertation discusses the agrarian question and national development in a territorial perspective. Examines the alternative to family farming cooperatives and their importance for regional development through the establishment of agribusiness in Brazil and Goiás. Therefore, narrates the case of Cooperative Milk Producers in the city of Piracanjuba-Goiás- CPLP exemplifying how as cooperatives became an important and necessary option for the support of dairy farming in the county, but that by itself just does not solve the structural problem of agrarian question, which is the lack of efficient public policies for rural areas. According to important authors of development, as Celso Furtado and Florestan Fernandes, national, sustainable and effective development should happen with intermediation of the National State, through planned public policies. In turn, agriculture, especially the family farming is the fundamental element for territorial development, proven in several nations of the world by studies of Koning and Stringer and also in Brazil, by Ricardo Abramovay. Between agriculture and development, establishes a dialectic: the growth of agribusiness, mainly from 1960 and the maintaining the delayed field. The agricultural production expands while the rural exodus increases. The productivity sets a record whilst the economic and social conditions of workers worsened. Through historical analysis and case study, it is noticed that the national agricultural development does seem to be linked to the establishment of public policies on access to land, logistics and energy infrastructure, promotion to technical training field workers, and price regulation.