Dinâmica produtiva da pecuária na mesorregião oeste catarinense: especialização e diversificação da produção no período de 2000 a 2017

The Santa Catarina State Western region colonization process, initiated in the first decades of the twentieth century, through the installation of small mercantile producers, artisans, traders, among others, promoted from the 1960s the emersion of different agribusinesses (meat, milk, wood, extractivism, grains). These agribusinesses went through an intense technical and economic restructuring process, post-1990s, which resulted in geoeconomic productive activities changes downstream and upstream. With regard to livestock production, in 2017, the Santa Catarina’s State West mesoregion accounted for 51% of state cattle production, 78% of state production of chickens, 79% of state pig production and 75% of state milk production. Thus, the article’s objective is to expose the agribusinesses productive performance related to livestock farming in the West of Santa Catarina between the years 2000 to 2017. There has been an increase in the main livestock agribusinesses production, in line with the production concentration and the derivative products diversification, driven by the exports and domestic consumption growth. Methodologically, the following steps were taken: bibliographic survey, data collection, technical works, bibliographic analysis and data analysis.