INDEX OF AGRICULTURAL PUBLIC POLICIES OF THE MUNICIPALITIES OF THE STATE OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.2163242312096

• Palavras-chave: Agriculture and livestock. Public policy. Index.

• Keywords: Agriculture and livestock. Public policy. Index.

• Abstract:

  From sugar cane, passing through coffee to today's soybeans, Brazil has always had agriculture as an engine of its development and, over the years, several public policies have been implemented in order to support this valuable sector of the economy. Based on this, the present study aimed to build an index to measure agricultural public policies in the municipalities of Rio Grande do Sul. Through factor analysis it was possible to construct the index and through exploratory spatial analysis it was possible to verify a cluster of municipalities with high indices in the northern region of the state and a cluster of low index of agricultural public policies in the metropolitan region of the capital of Rio Grande do Sul. It is concluded that the clusters coincided with the region of the state where there is a higher incidence of formal employees in agriculture and with the region where there is low production, respectively. The results obtained allowed making inferences about the correlation of the index created with the agricultural scenario in Rio Grande do Sul.