The agriculture in heavy industrialization: the Goals Plan and its impacts on agricultural modernization

Abstract

The article aims to analyze how agriculture was seen by the Plan of Goals. The methodology is a descriptive analysis of the Plan's Goals and their impacts on the behavior of production and productivity in Brazilian agriculture and of the economic variables that stimulated or discouraged agricultural modernization according to the Paiva-Schultz model: the cost of capital and labor in agriculture, the price and internal and external consumption of agricultural products, and the productivity of capital and rural labor. The results of the article shows empirical evidence that at the time of the Plan of Goals there was no comparative advantage for agricultural modernization.