The article has as objective to identify and to define productive groupings that configure the milk's agribusiness of the Rio Grande do Sul (RS) economy. For that, the methodological process used was the matrix input-output of the RS. The group of information generated allowed to visualize the flow of input and final goods for origin and destiny, as well as the economic dimension and linkages of the milk´s agribusiness. It was verified that the production of the grouping formed by the sections of natural milk and of milk beneficiary and other derived presents a high level of autonomy in the supply of input for the sales (99,54%) as for the purchases (77,92%). It was also verified that the milk´s agribusiness is a liquid exporter for another states of Brasil, it presents significant forward and backward linkages and it is constituted as key section for RS. It is, therefore, of a productive grouping in expansion process.
agribusiness; intersectorial relationships; input-output
