THE DEPENDENCE OF THE BRAZILIAN AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY ON THE FOREIGN MARKET AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF AUTONOMY

Abstract

This research addresses the challenges faced by the agricultural industry due to the dependency on imported agricultural machinery and parts produced outside the national market. This external market dependency hinders the Brazilian industry, limiting its capacity for innovation and technological development, while promoting denationalization and placing Brazil at a competitive disadvantage. The main objective of this study is to analyze the possibility of reducing this dependency by manufacturing agricultural machinery domestically, examining methods that make this feasible, and exploring how this approach has been productive in the past. Bibliographic research was utilized to support the data in this project, leading to several conclusions while also raising some questions presented at the end of the study. Ultimately, the study finds that it is possible to manufacture our own agricultural machinery, and that ending this dependency is crucial for mitigating negative impacts and starting to invest in the agricultural industrial sector. The research concludes that this dependency is an obstacle to the development of Brazil's industrial sector, and that by taking examples from strategies like China's centralized planning along with incentives from the Brazilian government, it is possible to revitalize this sector. However, some questions remain that could be addressed through further studies and in-depth analysis.