The orange productive circuit in the Geographic Microregion of Jales-SP

Abstract

Brazil is the world's largest producer of orange, standing out among the main exporting countries of concentrated juice of this fruit, being the state of São Paulo the largest national producer. Under the dictates of agribusiness, orange juice became a commodity and the national production of this fruit was articulated in order to serve the interests of big capital, represented by the beverage processing industries, monopolizing the market and exercising strong control over the sector. In this context, the Geographic Microregion of Jales was inserted in the space circuit of capital linked to citriculture, although most of its orange production is sold in natura in the domestic market, understood as a strategy to "dribble" the monopoly of processing industries, especially by peasants producing orange, but not escaping to the appropriation of the income of the land by the capital present in the circulation of this commodity. Starting from such assumptions, this work aims to analyze the process of appropriation of land rent by capital in the space circuit of orange production in the Geographic Microregion of Jales.

Keywords: Citriculture; Geographic Microregion of Jales -SP; Agricultural Commodities.