Utilização de análise de agrupamento para a identificação e caracterização das propriedades fumageiras de Paraíso do Sul

Abstract

The identification of the production systems indeed used by the producers it is important to subsidize the institutions of agricultural research and agricultural extension in the generation and transfer of compatible technologies with the reality of the producers. This study had as main objective to identify and to characterize the systems of production of tobacco in the municipal district of Paradise of the South through the use of the analysis of groupings. After the analysis unidimensional, some questions were selected with base in the variability among the answers and, starting from these, the necessary variables were built to proceed to the analysis multidimensional. The cluster analysis was shown an useful and appropriate instrument for the identification of production systems in use for the rural producers.