Os principais serviços de educação da Região Metropolitana de Fortaleza vinculados ao agronegócio.

Abstract

Agribusiness has been increasingly occupying a prominent place in the economies of many countries, such as Brazil, articulating with large metropolises, such as São Paulo. However, we believe that this sector is beyond the big metropolis, becoming present and growing in other regions, such as the Metropolitan Region of Fortaleza. Therefore, this work has as main objective to conduct a survey of the main existing education services in the RMF that can be used to meet the demand of agribusiness. The methodology used to develop this panorama was qualitative and quantitative, with five methodological procedures. The first one was a bibliographical survey, the second corresponded to the collection of secondary data, mainly on the internet, for the construction of a spreadsheet with the main courses related to agribusiness. In the third phase interviews were conducted with a professor from Limoeiro do Norte and another from the Federal University of Ceará. In addition to the interviews, in the fourth methodological procedure a questionnaire was applied with the third year group of the technical course in Agribusiness of the EEEP Maria Dolores Alcântara e Silva. Finally, the construction of a digital newspaper library, with content related to agribusiness taken from the main newspapers that provide news about the State of Ceará. Through this study, we identified that there are a variety of courses offered by different institutions, which leads us to think that if there is a supply of courses and people attending these services in search of training, it is because the demand of labor for the activities of the sector also exists, although it is less expressive than the other economic sectors that operate in the RMF. As regards the agribusiness sector in the Metropolitan Region of Fortaleza, there is a lack of academic work that reflects on its development and / or influence in the relations of this area, so the present study, although it has a more introductory character, it is necessary as a starting point to propose further reflections on this activity.