Caracterização e agrupamento de municípios de Minas Gerais em relação à agricultura familiar

Abstract

The family farming has notorious diversity of social forms, organizational and production, interfering in the pretension to characterize it in the Minas Gerais State, equally diverse in its territory, in its economy and culture. It sought to identify patterns that characterize this segment in its asymmetry and distinctive elements, in this area, using the data from the Agriculture Census of 2006 to assess their composition and distribution among the Minas Gerais municipalities, aim to identify its profile and its contribution to economic and social State development. This is an exploratory study of quantitative nature, which are used multivariate analysis techniques of Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis. The results show that distinct features mark the family farming in related cities of Minas Gerais, mainly with socioeconomic conditions, which therefore implies alternate realities in the municipalities. This is perhaps the greatest contribution of the work since explaining the differences existing among the municipalities and grouping them together homogeneous, the results presented here may contribute to a better understanding of the family farming in Minas Gerais.