AS PECULIARIDADES DO POLO INDUSTRIAL DE ITUMBIARA NO CENÁRIO GOIANO: UMA COMPARAÇÃO COM A REGIÃO DE CATALÃO E RIO VERDE (1999-2012).

Abstract

The present work aims to characterize the peculiarities of the Itumbiara industrial pole and to identify the reasons for the difference of its performance vis a vis the poles of Catalão and Rio Verde during the period of consolidation of its productive complexes. Using data from IPEA's historical added value series, IBGE municipal GDP, RAIS information from the Ministry of Labor, and various sources on the history of investments in these municipalities, traces a trajectory of its industrial development, focusing on the period of consolidation of their productive complexes. It argues that the intense process of agricultural modernization, in the pattern of the Green Revolution, and the implementation of large mineral enterprises, made possible by the programs and investments of the II PND and the construction of Brasília between the 1970s and the end of the 1990s, resulted in Increasing integration of primary and secondary production sectors in the regions nucleated by those municipalities, feeding back the process of expansion with more or less virtuous circles of growth and structural change in their industry. It also reveals that Itumbiara, which came on a dynamic trajectory in its stage of agricultural modernization, loses relative dynamism, presenting a performance that falls short of the others. It points out as probable causes the strong polarization exerted by Rio Verde / Jataí on the investments in the complex of grains and meats in the period, also exerted by the pole of Uberlândia and Uberaba, acting as regressive effects in the direction pointed out by Myrdal. And, the cotton crisis in the 1990s and the sugar and alcohol industry, two very important segments in its agro-industrial structure.