HISTORY OF BRAZILIAN AGRIBUSINESS

IN TWO PERIODS:

COLONIAL PERIOD

BRAZIL REPUBLIC AND COMTEPORANITY

Brasil: 851 millionhectars

Portugal: 90 million hectars

XVI Century

1500

XVII Century

1600

XVIII Century

1700

XIX Century

1800

XX Century

1900

SUGAR CANE CYCLE

• Companies with a sophisticated financial and management structure. JV with international investors

• Scale production;

• A production focus on the international market, depending on it, and not in subsistence production;

• The company expertise was production and not trading. Trading was Portugal monopoly

XVI Century

1500

XVII Century

1600

XVIII Century

1700

XIX Century

1800

XX Century

1900

LIVESTOCK GROWING:

• The livestock urge as an important activity for subsistence and connected to the local market, based on endogenous growth.

• Cattle breeding happened in large areas and was low intensive capital.

• It was done by free workers because the slavery cost was expensive to purchase.

XVI Century

1500

XVII Century

1600

XVIII Century

1700

XIX Century

1800

XX Century

1900

TROPICAL EXTRACTIVE AND ALTERNATIVES CROPS

• With the fall of sugar cane the people looked for economical alternatives;

• Amazon region took place in the quest of tropical riches like medicines, seed, trees and others.

• This movement took JESUITAS to entered the amazon and started to catechize the indigenous people, raising the free labor force

XVI Century

1500

XVII Century

1600

XVIII Century

1700

XIX Century

1800

XX Century

1900

MINING CYCLE

• Shifted the development in the northeast to the southeast and center-south. Rio de Janeiro became the capital of the Colony because of the important port to export gold and gemstones;

• Growing of the cities because of the mining and new immigration flow from Portuguese to the Colony.

• Mining was responsible for creating a local market;

XVI Century

1500

XVII Century

1600

XVIII Century

1700

XIX Century

1800

XX Century

1900

COFFEE CYCLE

• Spread easily because it was low capital intensive.

• Coffee expansion depend on land;

• Based on free workers and responsible for great flow of European emigrants

• Production and Trading: The coffee farmers was local people, mailing merchants that invest resources in coffee production

• Brazilian Republic era: Coffee producer was part of political scene;

XX CENTURY AND CONTEMPORANITY

1960-1967

1975-1990

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