THE SEA SALT PRODUCTION IN BRAZIL AND THE INFLUENCE OF RELATIONSHIP WITH PLUVIOMETRY AND THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC GROWTH

Abstract

There are data of sea salt production from the year 1938, this work these data were analyzed from year to year, making emphasis on periods of growth, decline and stagnation. These periods were related to economic changes and spaces of production of the salt activity. The spatial transformations were analyzed from social and natural points of view. The statistical method used to relate the variables rainfall, Brazil's GDP and domestic production of sea salt was the Pearson correlation coefficient. The Salt work activity has his growth related with economic growth and modernization in which the industry experienced between the 1960s and 1970s when Rio Grande do Norte has established itself as the largest national producer. There is a strong influence of the natural environment with the development of the salt activity, which is concentrated mainly in a certain portion of the northern Northeast of Brazil, in this region the activity is influenced by the interannual variation of rainfall.