ADAN CARLOS DA MOTA
Abstract:
The study of the Brazilian agrarian question allows numerous discussions, mainly due to the high concentration of land that exists in a country with continental dimensions such as Brazil. Thus, from 2004, with the creation of the National Program for the Production and Use of Biodiesel (PNPB), a new range of discussions has been opened, considering that the raw material for biodiesel in several Brazilian regions, such as the Midwest, it has been soybean, so areas previously destined for the production of pluriculture are producing monoculture. In Goian Southwest, an important grain producing region, the settlements are being invaded by soy. This study aims to trace a history and analyze the influences of the introduction and evolution of agricultural production for biodiesel in the Três Pontes settlement in Perolândia (GO), highlighting the environmental and socioeconomic reflexes according to the perception of the settled farmers. With the use of techniques of Participatory Rural Diagnosis - DRP- semi-structured interview, aimed at obtaining direct primary information, quantitative aspects, translating into numbers the opinions and information analyzed; and qualitative ones translated by what cannot be measurable, observing reality and the subject as inseparable elements. The research results point to a lack of characterization of this local actor, since there was abandonment of pluriculture to the detriment of soybean planting, small producers who joined the PNPB stopped producing food. Under the argument that the PNPB aims at social inclusion and regional development through job and income generation, the Federal Government has encouraged the creation of ties between agribusiness companies, which benefit from the Government's own tax incentives and family farmers, disregarding and transforming this segment, which is essential not only for security but also for national food sovereignty.
