PROCESSO DE EXPANSÃO AGRÍCOLA NA MESORREGIÃO SUL DO ESTADO DE GOIÁS: CASO DO MUNICÍPO DE PIRES DO RIO - GO

Abstract

The theme object of this work was the process of modernizing the agricultural area of the municipality of Pires do Rio and its micro, meso located in southern Goiás State, from 1990 to 2010. It was found that the export crop and industrial supply (soya, sugar cane and corn) grown apace over the plantation area and production, especially the cultivation of sugar cane, mainly in southern mesoregion State of Goias, where there were several mills alcohol production. Unlike export crop, crops evaluated for family farming (beans, cassava and rice) every decade has reduced their planted areas and production. From 1990 there was an intensification of the process of modernizing the means of productive agricultural area of the municipality of Rio Pires mesoregion across southern state. This modernization has increased the process of urbanization (rural exodus) in the city and its micro, phenomenon that stimulated the increase in urban populations, giving rise to numerous problems. In the agricultural area was found increase in planted area, production and productivity and their relationship in the use of inputs from the export crop and industrial supply.