STATE, PUBLIC POLICIES AND AGRICULTURAL MODERNIZATION: THE SMALL FARMER REDEFINED –1970S

The modernization of agriculture dialogues with the latest regional, national and international events. Since hearing a political option in Brazil from 1930 onwards for conservative modernization, agriculture has been used to produceraw materials for industry. The peasants, who preferred to live in a simple way, practicing traditional agriculture, demonstrated resistance to the modernization model that came through the state through financial intermediation and credit-oriented policies, making the introduction of elements that represented the modernization of agriculture as mandatory. implements, hybrid seeds, herbicides and insecticides. Faced with the option for the capitalist modernization of agriculture that the peasantry demonstrates resistance since the consequences were the pollution of the environment, the growth of large estates and the rural exodus.