ABSTRACT:
This article aims to analyze the relations between the dictatorship of the civil-military movement of 1964-1985, agriculture and higher agricultural education, focusing on the Agriculture University of São Paulo, Luiz de Queiroz College (ESALQ / USP), elected in 2015 the 5th best school of agricultural sciences in the world. Designed in 1881 and inaugurated in 1901, It is an organic institution of Brazilian ruralism, and was instrumental in promoting the agrarian policies of military governments, providing the bases for the creation of agribusiness in the country. With the intervention of US governments and heavy Brazilian state investments, ESALQ/USP provided scientific knowledge, educational and rural extension for the process of “Conservatory Modernization” of the Field, with the dictatorial regime implementing agroindustrial production to “blood and fire” and conserving the structures of colonial origin in Brazil, such as the latifundium and the high exploitation of rural workers.
Keywords:
Agricultural education; Dictatorship; Agribusiness; ESALQ/USP; Conservative modernization