THE GENESIS OF THE MODERNIZATION OF AGRICULTURE IN SAO PAULO

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to show how to build socially committed the Paulista agricultural elite, represented by the São Paulo Society of Agriculture, with the modernization of agriculture, also called scientific agriculture, emphasizing the moment of crisis in which lived the coffee crop and the strong influence of American agriculture. For it is understood that scientific agriculture practiced with the massive application of science and technology in its production process. Though it used primitive tools, such as plows, seeders, harrows moved by animal traction and fertilizer as manuring, was considered modern in function practiced in colonial, imperial period and even in the early days of the Republic, who only wore ax and sickle agriculture hoe as tools and fire as primary backup. it, too, is presented a list of the leading manufacturers and traders of agricultural machinery in order to have a sense of the scale of the use of machinery in the plantations.