Census of Agriculture
Census of Agriculture 2006
Household Agriculture – Brazil, Major Regions and Federation Units
First Results
Beginning to release results of the Census of Agriculture 2006, IBGE presents, for the first time, information about the economic activity performed by agriculture and rural household enterprises in the country, considering so those that meet the criteria defined by Law no. 11,326, of July 24, 2006, namely: the area of the rural establishment or enterprise does not exceed four fiscal modules; the labor force used in the developed economic activities belongs to the own family; the household income predominantly originates from those activities; the establishment or enterprise is run by the family.
In this pioneering work, done in cooperation with the Ministry of Agrarian Development, IBGE provides a conceptual delimitation of the productive segment and brings to public its first official statistics. Those results, released in an ample set of tables, make it possible to learn how many household farmers and entrepreneurs there are in Brazil, Major Regions and Federation Units; where they are; and what they produce. This will satisfy an important demand for quantitative information about the theme, so far examined only in sparse academic and scientific works conducted based on historic data.
The publication, also available at IBGE website on the Internet, brings commentaries on the first obtained national results, besides technical notes that describe the concepts necessary to its comprehension. The enclosed CD-ROM contains, besides the information of the printed volume, a table for mesoregions, microregions and municipalities.
The complete results of this Census of Agriculture edition are available in the volume Censo agropecuário 2006: Brasil, grandes regiões e unidades da federação..