O agronegócio cafeeiro no município de Guaranésia-MG
Authors: Melo Renata Vieira 
Published: October 2019

O Brasil é um dos principais países exportadores de café, sendo a mesorregião sul/sudoeste de Minas Gerais a principal região produtora deste agronegócio. A consolidação e expansão da cafeicultura na região destaca a dependência econômica da atividade na mesorregião, tanto para a dinâmica urbana quanto agrária, tendo em vista a grande participação de minifúndios e pequenas propriedades como base da produção. Assim, a monocultura do café nesta região mineira se diferencia das regiões onde o agronegócio se destaca pelas grandes propriedades, sendo sua organização agrária um híbrido entre pequenas e grandes propriedades. Nesse presente artigo, coloca-se a questão de compreender a produção do agronegócio cafeeiro sul mineiro, onde, de um lado possuí altos investimentos em capital, através de grandes empresas que viabilizam a produção, e de outro, trata-se de um agronegócio produzido, em grande maioria, pelos produtores familiares. Com intuito de analisar as relações dos principais agentes envolvidos na produção desta agricultura desta região, destaca-se a produção cafeeira do município de Guaranésia, estando este entre os municípios produtores do país, pois, acredita-se que possa elucidar a realidade da região. Para tanto, se realizou um estudo com a temática das relações campo-cidade, por confiar que há nela elementos teórico-conceituais capazes de auxiliar na investigação empírica. Dessa forma, este artigo tem por objetivo compreender a dinâmica da produção cafeeira no município de Guaranésia, através dos principais agentes envolvidos na mesma.Palavras-chave: Café, Agronegócio, Agricultura, Agrária.AbstractBrazil is one of the leading coffee exporting countries, the southern/south-western mesoregion of Minas Gerais being the main producing region of this agribusiness. The consolidation and expansion of coffee production in the region highlight the economic dependence of the activity in the mesoregion, both for urban and agrarian dynamics, given the significant participation of small farms as the production base. Thus, the monoculture of coffee in this region of Minas Gerais differs from the regions where agribusiness stands out for its extensive properties, and its agrarian organisation is a hybrid between small and large farms. Here, the question arises of understanding the production of the coffee agribusiness in the south of Minas Gerais, where, on the one hand, it has high capital investments, through large companies that enable production, and on the other, it is an agribusiness produced in a vast majority, by family producers. In order to analyze the relationships of the leading agents involved in the production of this region's agriculture, we intend to investigate the coffee production of the municipality of Guaranésia, being this one of the largest producers in the country in the last harvests, since it believed that it could elucidate the reality of the region. Therefore, it proposed to carry out a study with the subject of the field-city relations, because we trust that there are theoretical-conceptual elements capable of assisting the empirical investigation. Thus, this research aims to understand the dynamics of coffee production in the municipality of Guaranésia, through the main agents involved in it.Keywords: Coffee, Agribusiness, Agriculture, Agrarian.Brazil is one of the leading coffee exporting countries, the southern/south-western mesoregion of Minas Gerais being the main producing region of this agribusiness. The consolidation and expansion of coffee production in the region highlight the economic dependence of the activity in the mesoregion, both for urban and agrarian dynamics, given the significant participation of small farms as the production base. Thus, the monoculture of coffee in this region of Minas Gerais differs from the regions where agribusiness stands out for its extensive properties, and its agrarian organisation is a hybrid between small and large farms. Here, the question arises of understanding the production of the coffee agribusiness in the south of Minas Gerais, where, on the one hand, it has high capital investments, through large companies that enable production, and on the other, it is an agribusiness produced in a vast majority, by family producers. In order to analyze the relationships of the leading agents involved in the production of this region's agriculture, we intend to investigate the coffee production of the municipality of Guaranésia, being this one of the largest producers in the country in the last harvests, since it believed that it could elucidate the reality of the region. Therefore, it proposed to carry out a study with the subject of the field-city relations, because we trust that there are theoretical-conceptual elements capable of assisting the empirical investigation. Thus, this research aims to understand the dynamics of coffee production in the municipality of Guaranésia, through the main agents involved in it.