O Processo de especialização produtiva da microrregião fumicultura de Santa Cruz do Sul - RS.

Abstract

The present work has as finality to define the politic, economic, social and cultural facts that in the process of development of the Santa Cruz do Sul – RS Tobacco Region, made possible and influenced the regional production specialization. In order to get such results, we did a rescue of the regional historic development process through several searchs in books that approach the subject as well as data collect in mails and statistics of the period. Besides that, this critic and thorough look in the pass events, allowed the knowledge of the local limitations and potentialities that might come to instrument the regional politic actors in the definition of the productive sectors propitious to investments alocation. The obtained results with this work point as principal determinant facts of regional productive specialization the lack of a rural credit politic until the year of 1965; the financing and funding of the crop by the multinational tobacco companies (since 1920), as well as the coming of these companies to the region bringing new productive tecnologies that made possible the qualification and better productivity of the local product, appropiating it to the international market demands; the good price payed for the tobacco when compared to the rest of the regional products as bean, potato, cassava, corn and etc.; the shortage of capital and abundant labour, since the tobacco is a culture labour intensive and adapt better to the regional climatic and geographic conditions; the institution of AFUBRA, that introduced the mutual secure and reduced the risks of the tobacco production.