THE OPPOSITION OF AGROECOLOGY TO THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF ORGANICS

Abstract

The article deals with the relationship between organic production and agroecology. When analyzing data from the federal government, it is noted that food production in Brazil is large and concentrated in the power of a small group of people, while most producers, who come from family farming or small properties, find it very difficult to produce and sell their production. An alternative to the conventional production of large rural properties would be the planting of organic products, because in this way, there would be no control of large agricultural groups over production, giving the small producer productive and financial autonomy. But, realizing that organic agriculture could be produced on a large scale, the capitalist market took over the organic agricultural technique, transforming the natural product into something industrial, and consequently, excluding two social groups from the food market, namely small producers and low-income people. In this sense, agroecology emerges as an alternative for small producers, as it involves not only the technique, but also a wide set of factors that make this concept something different in rural areas.