Affiliation(s)
1. Department of Agribusiness, State Center for Technological Education Paula Souza, Botucatu, São Paulo 18606-855, Brazil
2. Department of Bioprocesses and Biotechnology, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu, São Paulo 18610-307, Brazil
3. Department of Biostatistics, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu, São Paulo 18618-689, Brazil
4. Department of Production Engineering, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Itapeva, São Paulo 18409-010, Brazil
5. Department of Civil Engineering, São Paulo Southeast College, Avaré, São Paulo 18707-190, Brazil
ABSTRACT
Rural economic development can differ intensely among municipalities
within the same region. The economic activity disparity among them makes public
policy actions difficult. It is possible to find highly efficient and globally
competitive producers, as well as those
producing for subsistence, in the same area. This disparity
stands out the total productivity importance of the factors of production in
the agricultural sector, especially the productivity of the land. The way the
land is occupied in the rural area, namely crops, pastures, reforestation and
other areas, can be indicative of the productivity of the land factor and the
value of agricultural production. The products that compose the value of the
agricultural production present different land occupation through their own
productive characteristic. The main objective of this work was to measure the
association between the production value of groups of agricultural products and
the diversified uses of the rural area in the production of the municipalities
in the state of São Paulo. In this research, 52 agricultural products produced
in 2008 were used, grouped in five production value variables and other nine
variables of the land use in production of the municipalities in São Paulo. The
multivariate statistical technique of canonical correlation was used to measure
the association between the product variables group of the production value
with the land use group in agricultural activities. It was concluded that there
is a strong correlation (94.3%) in the first pair of canonical variables,
representing the production value and the land use, allowing groups of
municipalities to be formed at different stages of development in agricultural
production. It can be verified that 61.8% of the municipalities in the state
were below the average in the production group and land use and that only 4.8%
were above average for the production variables group and with values below the average in land use. The stages of
agricultural development in the municipalities of São Paulo and the association
between the production and use of the area can contribute to identify the
direction of public policies to increase the productivity of the agricultural
sector.
KEYWORDS
Agricultural production value, rural area, canonical correlation, heterogeneity.
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