Island of modernity in the archaic ocean

the mechanized harvest of sugar cane in a plant alagoan

Abstract

Alagoas emerges as one of the main sugarcane producers in the country. In its context, the mechanization of the sugarcane production processes and, more specifically, the harvesting process has not occurred in the same way as in the main producing regions. We have the joint existence of the "archaic" and the "modern" inside the sugarcane fields of Alagoas. Given this contradictory relation between the "archaic" and the "modern", the present text aims to investigate how this "modern" is developed in a specific productive unit of the state. Thus, the following question is: how does the mechanization of sugar cane harvesting develop in a productive unit of the state of Alagoas? For conducting the research it is opted for the qualitative approach, having the collection of information through the practices of observation, interview, and documental analysis. The discussions in this text made it possible to visualize, even in a production context marked by the low technological incorporation, the existence of an "island" of modernity in the sugarcane fields of the state.