GEO Brasil - UNEP

In ha
Figure 4 - A verage area of hous eholds por hectare
1,324
1,008
433
269
223 283
NE CW N SE S BR
Figure 5 - Áverage area of patronal lands in hectares
In ha
84
57
30
17
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to an increasing trend towards an intensified use of up-todate
technology in national cattle ranching Therefore,
consumption demands may be met along with higher
productivity dependent on the sectorial policies This
would diminish the expansion into the Amazon, one of
the principal forms of land occupation today
The average size of smallholdings in Brazil is 26 ha
(Figures 4 and 5), whereas large holdings 433 ha These
numbers may greatly vary among different regions and
has its historical origin in the colonial system of land
ownership Therefore, in regions where landholdings are
larger, smallholdings are also larger While the average
size of smallholdings in the Northeast is 166 ha, it is 845
ha in the MidWest Regarding large farms, with a national
average of 433 ha, the average size in the MidWest is up to
1,324 ha In the Southeast are the smallest farms among
large holdings, with 223 ha
the state of environment in Brazil
NE CW N SE S BR
programmes for the production of genetically enhanced
crops, artificial insemination and embryo transfer, crop-cattle
ranching integration, animal confinement and semiconfinement,
and the recently launched programme for
electronic tracking of animals As a result, cattle slaughter
rates climbed from 16 percent in 1990 to 23 percent at the
end of the decade, higher than the world average of 20
percent These indicators associated to new
biotechnological methods for genetic enhancement point
A regional analysis points to the importance of
smallholdings in the North and South, where more than
50 percent of GPV is produced by smallholders In the
North, smallholdings add up to 854 percent of farms,
occupy 375 percent of the area and produce 583 percent
of GPV, receiving 386 percent of agricultural incentives
(Table 6)
The South is predominantly made up of smallholdings
representing 905 percent of all farms in the region They
occupy 438 percent of the total area and produce 571
percent of the regional GPV Smallholders receive 433
percent of incentives applied in the region It is also noted
Table 6 - Brazil: establishments, areas, Gross Value of Production (VBP) and Total Financing (FT)
Categories
Total
Establish.
% establish.
Without total
Total Area
(Thous ha)
% Area
Without total
VBP
(Thous. R$)
% VBP
Without total
FT
(Thous. R$)
%FT
Without total
Households
Patronal
Inst. Pia/relig.
Public Entities
Non-identified
Total
4,139,369 85.2 107,768 30.5 18,117,725 37.,9 937,828 25.3
554,501 11.4 240,042 67.9 29,139,850 61.0 2,735,276 73.8
7,143 0.2 263 0.1 72,327 0.1 2,716 0.1
158,719 3.2 5,530 1.5 465,608 1.0 31,280 0.8
132 0.0 8 0.0 959 0.0 12 0.0
4,859,864 100.0 353,611 100.0 47,796,469 100.0 3,707,112 100.0
Source: INCRA - 2000. Elaboration of Technical Cooperation Project INCRA/FAO.
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