Agroindústria canavieira e desenvolvimento local, Bambuí-MG

• Autor(a) principal: Barbosa, Ronaldo dos Reis
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/3340
• topic: Agroindústria canavieira; Crescimento econômico; Sugar cane agribusiness; Economic growth; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ECONOMIA DOMESTICA

Sugar Cane has been incorporated to Brazilian territory during the colonial period and constituted the first economical cycle among the ones which marked the socioeconomic formation of the country. Over time, the aforementioned crop had highlight moments with either sugar and alcohol production and moments in which it has ceded space to other crops or products. In recent years, sugar cane once again is part of economical scenery. The conveyed discourse is that the worldwide interest is to diminish the dependence of fossil fuels and diversify the energy matrix to attenuate global warming. In this context, attention is conveyed to biofuels, especially to sugar cane ethanol. And, once again, the demand of ethanol raises, being necessary to increase the production of sugar cane crop, related both to acreage enlargement and productivity. Therefore, the cultivation of sugar cane is increasing in Brazil, surpassing traditional areas, in São Paulo and Northeast countryside. In this enlargement, the cultivation also moves forward to Minas Gerais Midwest, where the city council of Bambuí is situated, which, since 2006, has been experimenting the sugar cane expansion due to the implantation of Total Sugar Cane Agribusiness (Total Agroindústria Canavieira S/A). In this sense, this study aimed to analyze the current acting scenery of Total Industries, since the implantation until nowadays, aiming to verify, from the perception of different social actors, if such enterprise signalizes to local development perspective. The research presents exploratory, descriptive and transversal features, utilizing primary and secondary data. The results characterized the enterprise acceptability through social actors, due to, principally, its economical importance, such as employment generation, Real Estate warming, commerce acceleration and incoming increase to a small portion of population. As possible factors identified as unlike to the agribusiness in the city council, pollution, cost of living rising and criminality are highlighted. Considering that, even if economical increase occurs, it does not mean, necessarily, development, once this implies in capacity promotion and enlargement of social opportunities it would be precocious to affirm that local development is being observed in the city council of Bambuí within the analyzed period. For now it is only possible to mention economical development, selective and without equity distribution.