Agronomí­a, agrónomos y estado en Brasil: organizaciones y disputas (1930-1961)

Abstract

This paper objective a compared analysis of the projects for the Brazilian agriculture transmitted by two entities of agronomy professionals in Brazil between 1930 and 1961: the Brazilian Society of Agronomy (SBA) and the Society from São Paulo of Agronomy (SPA). The research supported by the newspapers of these entities supply data on the main practical take for each one of them, as well as it allows reconstituting its directing staff instrument capable to give intelligibility to the different projects. Therefore, while the leaders of SBA - simultaneously graduates for the National School of Agronomy, employees of the Ministry of the Agriculture and directors of the National Society of Agriculture - they defended the state incentive to the productive diversification and the standardization of new agricultural products returned to the export, the agronomists from SPA, more directly articulated to the great industrial bourgeoisie from São Paulo, independently of its school origin, they proposed clearly, already in the decade of 1940, the industrialization of the Brazilian agriculture, by means of the propaganda of agricultural industrial input and of the implementation of the industry of tractors in the country.