Inovação tecnológica na cafeicultura do Cerrado Mineiro: análise bibliométrica no SBICafé, no Periódico Coffee Science e no SciELO

Abstract

This research objects to analyze how technological innovation and management are presented in works that discuss the subject of coffee production in the Brazilian savanna, known as “Cerrado Mineiro” located in Minas Gerais State. The analysis is based on a bibliometric data survey developed by the scientific journal Coffee Science and SciELO, from 2000 to 2015. We seek to verify the amount of scientific articles about coffee and coffee growing that, somehow present in their summaries the key words innovation, technology, management, Cerrado Mineiro and Cerrado Mineiro region, also to investigate the focus given to the technological innovation, based of the following characteristics: mechanical innovations, physico-chemical, biological and agronomic practices. As a result of this survey, nine abstracts of scientific articles were mapped: six of them in the scientific journal Coffee Science and three from SciELO website. From these summaries, five presented in their research the subsequent innovation aspects: physical-chemistry and agronomic (soil fertilization), physico-chemical and mechanical (maturation uniformity and harvest), physico-chemical and biological (fungi and grain humidity), mechanical (a summary about repetition of the harvest method and another about soil compaction); two abstracts referred to production management and two about production differentiation and costs (economic approach). From the examination of the abstracts it was observed a interdependence relationship between technological innovations and its effects to the increasing of productivity, production costs reduction, improvement in the quality of the grain and improvement of the environmental performance. In summary, this bibliometric research acted as a reference to the coffee growing thematic, since it is a way of fostering optimization with previously developed researches and, thus, opportunities or potential points in fields, themes or not investigated objects. In addition, it was observed with this survey data, that the technological development and innovation research are important to enhance the management of resources, so as the investments made by the producer in order to monitor more effectively the production management.