História econômica da suinocultura no Paraná: tradição e modernização

Abstract

This dissertation investigated the economic history of swine modernization in - Paraná, Brazil, mainly from 1950 to 1980. As specific objectives we investigated the connections between the modernization of swine farming and the various factors of agricultural modernization in general in Paraná between 1930 and 1995. The primary sources include agricultural and agricultural censuses of the IBGE (1950, 1960, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1995), consultation of Paraná newspapers between 1930 and 1970 (Digital Hemeroteca) and also interviews with former pig breeders crops of pigs). Despite the domestication of pigs dating to about 10,000 years of existence, the economic importance of pig farming in Brazil and in other countries is not always properly recognized and exploited from a historical and economic point of view. In the south of Brazil the swine had great economic relevance primarily with lard, a period in which it was used practically at all meals of the day, and also had food preservation purposes. At a later point in the cooling process, the lard-type pigs lost space to the meat-type pig breeds, which were more likely to produce meat, due to the demand by the consumer market and the meat industries. These previously created loose animals are produced in the model of confinement, with restriction of animal movements to obtain the maximum conversion of cereal to meat. In Paraná, swine farming has been very relevant in the historical economy of the state in the twentieth century.