Potencialidades e perspectivas do agronegócio da soja no município de Uruçuí

Abstract

The objective of this research is to analyze the transformations that occurred from the Soy Agribusiness, with the insertion of the Piauí savannahs as the last agricultural frontier, especially the municipality of Uruçuí. Dynamics that began in the 1970s with the first experiments with soybean production and gained materiality in the 1990s. The realization of agriculture in the Southwest Piauiense was through the migration of southerners who are part of the occupation of the so-called Central Brazil and in the most recent region of Brazilian agribusiness called MATOPIBA, which represents the junction of the initial acronyms of the states of Maranhão, Piauí, Tocantins and Bahia. For the preparation of this article, a bibliographic search was carried out, using several authors who described about the subject, as well as the use of data provided by the National Supply Company (CONAB). Thus, this activity and its entire productive cycle consolidates the responsible for the current modeled in the Piauí Cerrado, which justifies a thorough study that highlights the new spatialities, their agents and processes. It was found that the Southwest Piauiense, is marked by major changes in the urban economy, the municipality of Uruçuí is a grain producing region, where the urban space has hosted companies in the agribusiness production chain, polarizing services.