Nota Técnica - 2003 - outubro - Número 3 - Dimac

Technological Change and Agricultural Growth in the Brazilian Cerrado: A Theoretical Analysis

Gervásio Castro de Rezende

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The objective of this paper is to show that the agricultural growth in the cerrado regions under the new technology, starting in the 1970’s and still continuing today at a fast rate, is a phenomenon closely associated with such a “construction of the soil,” and the resulting low price of good agricultural land in the cerrado regions vis-à-vis the other agricultural regions of the country and abroad.