Caminhos da agropecuária em terras do Mato Grosso Goiano : o município de Inhumas em questão

Abstract

The main objective of this work was to address the agrarian process and agriculture in the municipality of Inhumas, contextualized through the border movement occurred in the 1930s, in the rich region of Mato Grosso Goiano. Thus, following the process of political emancipation and the effects of coffee farming, in addition to the contributions of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Minas Gerais and São Paulo immigrants to the inhumane agriculture. This work also proposed a discussion about the construction process agricultural is agrarian in the municipality of Inhumas, exemplified today by the sugar cane that expands at socioeconomic and political-spatial levels, promoting transformations at the urban and rural. As a result, there is an intensification of the deterritorialization of the middle and small producer, due to the respective advance of sugar cane in the Inhumense territory, which currently corresponds to 51% of planted areas. Social and economic changes become more evident, proposing new forms of agricultural expansion, through this intense cultivation of sugar cane that reshapes the municipality’s productive dynamics. It is research constituted an attempt to understand this process, and subsequently awaken curiosities for reflection on the factors that encourage the non-materialization of this process of agricultural expansion in the municipality, in a respective crisis in this group that would cause the decline of agricultural strength, due to the scarcity of its soils.