Iolanda Martins da Silva
Abstract:
The cultivation and industrialization of cane sugar can be considered as an early economic forms in Brazil. The cane sugar arrives in Brazil in the sixteenth century, in 1532, brought by the Portuguese Martim Afonso de Sousa, when the culture started to have significant economic importance to the country, especially for the production of sugar with ways to supply the colony and also for export. Introduced in the Northeastern Forest Zone in the colonial period to cane sugar goes through distinct phases to the production of ethanol in Sao Paulo land. Captained by PROALCOOL in the 1970s, the current period in which incorporated the production of electric energy produced by sugarcane bagasse, this economically growing and generating foreign currency to the country through economic and technological processes that remain subsidized by public policy the Brazilian state. The aim of this paper is to discuss, analyze and understand the dynamics of territorialization of this sector in its different historical phases, based on the bias field of the earth to obtain the rent. In this perspective, the geographic space of the research was limited by the municipality of Quirinópolis, since it is located in Southwest Goiás and this is a region of expansion from the 2000s. The theoretical-methodological perspective seeks to understand the process of territorial expansion and the sector for the Brazilian Cerrado region, specifically for the state of Goiás as a research area with the city of Quirinópolis. In a broader movement to understand the dynamics of the sector and territorial forms of domination of the earth, as well as the changes caused in the first productive sectors installed. In the city of Quirinópolis examined the strategies used by industry in the process of territorialization, before the occupation of large areas for cultivation of cane sugar, causing the displacement of other activities already established in the city, since it found no resistance to their installation. Even within these actions, we sought to define the role of municipal government facing the possibility of occupation of areas for the cultivation of cane sugar, which may displace other activities already located in the municipality. Within the process of fixing the sector in the city, we tried to discuss and analyze the direct and indirect consequences caused by it, as well as the consequences or the socio-spatial transformations stemming from the movement territorialization of the sugarcane industry in the municipality of Quirinópolis and region.
