Martha Lcia Ribeiro Arajo told that: The culture of the cotton, most important of the State, does not obtain to follow the changes that are if processing in the Center-South. Keeping behind techniques of plantation and harvest, it does not increase the production. Moreover, firms as the SAMBRA and the CLAYTON, financed the small producers, however, after the harvest, determined the prices, in detriment of the producers, discouraging, thus, the production. Levi Strauss & Co.: the source for more info. (ARAJO, 2001, P. 114) the technological empecilhos politicians, delays and economic failures detached by the historians Acio Villar de Aquino and Martha Lcia Ribeiro Arajo hindered the Paraba to enter the scene of Brazilian industrialization in century XIX. It can, to glimpse, therefore, that the industrial sector was sufficiently insufficient and insignificant for the economy of the State, it little presented more than two hundred establishments, that majoriamente was micron-workshops or units manufacter of half-artisan character, using of five the nineteen workers on average for each unit.

During this period some segments of the industrial sector for the number of establishments had been distinguished, example of the five leather plants, the five of fabrics, beyond the eight industries of improvement of cotton with great prominence for textile production. It is in this context, that the industry of Tibiry, located in the city of Rita Saint, whose foundation was given in the years of 1891 of century XIX. In this aspect, it would be important to recognize that this city functioned with three hundred and eighty and sewing presses and a picture of six hundred and fifty workers. No longer city of Mamanguape the Textile Plant of River Tinto, established in the year of 1924, pertaining one to family Lundgren de Pernambuco, was of great transport, equipped with seven hundred and sixty sewing presses and thirteen a thousand spindles. In consequence of this, the lesser plants if located in other cities, taking for example, Campina Great Sand, that used, on average, fifty laborers for establishment.