A Participação da cultura da cana-de-açúcar no PIB das microrregiões de Mato Grosso do Sul em 2011

Abstract

During the 1970s, the federal government through the I and II National Development Plan, sought the integration of the Midwest to the national economy, thus including the state of Mato Grosso do Sul in the process of expansion of the agricultural frontier and modernization of agricultural production. In this context through the National Alcohol Program (PROALCOOL) was implanted in Mato Grosso do Sul the culture of cane sugar, along with nine sugar and ethanol. During the 1980s the sugar and alcohol sector showed considerably expansion, turning first the production of ethanol and subsequently the production of sugar. Since 2003 the production of ethanol has a new prompt, which results in the expansion of sugar cane plantations and the execution of 16 new plants in Mato Grosso do Sul. The aim of this study was to analyze the participation of production of cane sugar in the GDP of the micro regions of Mato Grosso do Sul for the year 2011, and its evolution for the period 2000 to 2012. The methodology was based on descriptive research, obtaining facts by literature from assortment of authors have addressed the issue and consultation with secondary data. Among the main results highlight that the micro regions where the production of cane sugar had a higher share of GDP of the same, are where are located the sugar and ethanol, which are: Alto Taquari, Cassilândia, Nova Andradina, Dourados, Iguatemi, and Paranaíba. Thus concluding that the micro regions bordering the plants, eventually devote a considerable part of their land to the cultivation of cane sugar, so the production there of has a higher proportion in GDP of these micro-regions.