O agronegócio no Brasil, uma visão geo-econômica do avanço da Commodite Soja na região do Matopiba: o caso Balsas-MA, a cidade do agronegócio

Abstract

Agribusiness in Brazil is the source of approximately 50% of exports in the country, with the oscillating importance for GDP between 25% and 30% of current assets; this is a network of activities, linked to agricultural production. Within the historical context of soybean commodity production, we sought to understand the transformations in the agrarian space of the cities of Santa Rosa / RS “Pioneer” and Balsas / MA “the last agricultural frontier”, using new technologies and their processes of productive restructuring, as well as the influence of the rural on the urban and vice versa. We sought to demonstrate the dynamics of capital linked to agribusiness and the transformations of the traditional manual labor into technified labor required by the production sector. The transfer of production surpluses to the urban space involved in soybean production was analyzed, through the creation of trades and services related to this economic activity, which aim to meet the domestic market and mainly meet the demands of the foreign market, thus building new ones. Restructuring dynamics in the countryside and in the cities involved in agribusiness. These are analyzed within the concept of new territorial arrangements.