Contradições e tensões no processo de expansão do setor sucroenergético em Iturama-MG

Abstract

This master‟s degree research has the objective of analyzing the reoccupation of the agricultural space of Iturama with the sugar cane plantations, thinking about the tensions between cattle raising and the sugar cane. In cane‟s agribusiness dynamics it is also possible to notice the contradictions in the relations of leasing. The leasing process of lands is realized between the leasing cane mill and the renting soil proprietaries, contract which can have a duration of around ten years. It is necessary to think in how these growers represent themselves in the space of production by their territorialities and land use. We analyze the reality of those who are afflicted in a direct or indirect way by this dynamic of expansion that is occurring in an ever accelerating pace in Triangulo Mineiro‟s/Alto Paranaíba‟s Cerrado since the beginning of the XXI century. The fieldwork allowed us to observe a landscape that looked as something homogeneous at first, but, as we traced and came about long trails inside the cane sea, we found the existence of subjects who have relations of belonging with the place. We analyze the social conditions and territorialities of the reminiscent, those who are still in the countryside, and create territorial bonds which allow them to reinvent themselves by the means of milk production. These bonds are established in the social and work relations manifested in the meadow.