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A PESQUISA AGROPECUÁRIA NO PERÍODO DO PÓS-GUERRA

1987; EMPRESA BRASILEIRA DE PESQUISA AGROPECUÁRIA; Volume: 4; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.35977/0104-1096.cct1987.v4.9169

1678-3964

Cyro Mascarenhas Rodrigues,

Rural Development and Agriculture

Apesar de ter produzido importantes resultados de pesquisa nos seus quase 20 anos de existencia, a evolucao do Servico Nacional de Pesquisas Agronomicas Normal 0 — SNPA foi lenta e desarmoniosa. A escassez de recursos que lhe eram destinados e a baixa demanda por tecnologia agropecuaria refletiam o quadro conjuntural de absoluta prioridade para a industria que, na decada de 50, teve o seu parque expandido gracas a macica transferencia de capital do setor primario, via confisco cambial. Em 1962, o SNPA era extinto, dando lugar ao Departamento de Pesquisa e Experimentacao Agropecuarias Normal 0 — DPEA, que define como prioridade de pesquisa as culturas para fins de alimentacao, e nao altera o modelo institucional adotado pelo SNPA. O golpe de 1964 reordenou o Estado brasileiro prescindindo das reformas estruturais, optando pela modernizacao conservadora, centrada na internacionalizacao da economia e na dependencia externa. Para a agricultura, isto significou a busca de padroes de eficiencia tecnologica que permitissem maior produtividade da terra e do trabalho, conferindo maior rentabilidade ao capital. Para respaldar a transformacao da base tecnica da agricultura no mais curto prazo, o Governo procedeu a uma profunda mudanca no modelo institucional e operativo de pesquisa agropecuaria. Foi entao criada uma empresa publica, a Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria - EMBRAPA, cujo trabalho tem-se revelado funcional a logica do atual processo de acumulacao do capital. BRAZILIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE POSTWAR PERIOD Abstract In spite of having produced important research results in its nearly 20 years of existence, the evolution slow and uneven. The shortage of funding for this organization along with the low level of demand for agricultural technology were a reflection of the sequence of events which were to give absolute priority to industry which, in the decade of the saw its industrial park expanded, tanks to a massive transference of capital from the primary sector which occurred as a result of underpriced foreign exchange rates. In 1962, the SNPA was extinct, making way for the Department of Agricultural Research and Experimentation (DPEA), which defined as research priorities crops destined for human nutrition, and which did not alter the institucional model adopted by the SNPA. The military movement of 1964 rearranged the Brazilian state, renouncing structural reforms and choosing a conservative-type modernization, concentrating on the internationalization of the economy and on an external dependence. For agriculture, this signified a search for standards of tecnological efficiency which would permit a greater productvity of land and of labor, assuring a greater return on capital. In order to sustain the transformation of the technical basis of agriculture in the shortest period of time, the government instituted measures designed to insure a profound change in the institutional and operative model of agricultural research. Thus, a public enterprise, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Organization EMBRAPA), whose operation has proved to be functional accumulation, was established.