A Territorialização do capital canavieiro no Mato Grosso do Sul: o caso de Ponta Porã/MS

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the process of territorialization of sugarcane capital in the municipality of Ponta Porã, demonstrating the territorial transformations from the expansion of capitalist production relations via the sugarcane sector in the period 2009-2016, as another commodity in propagation in this municipality. To do so, we work with bibliographic sources selected in the field of geography that deal with this question. Also, with documentary sources that correspond to the national, state and municipal legislation in force, through documentary analysis. And, interviews conducted in the units installed within the municipality or that had leased properties in this unit (São Fernando Unit, Monteverde Unit and Alegre Vista Unit). The analysis and interpretation of the data allowed the following considerations: a) there was a new territorial ordering from the expansion of sugarcane, which generated an even greater concentration of land, income and capital in the municipality of Ponta Porã; b) increased resistance against this model of development, especially of indigenous people; c) constant support from the State for the development of sugar cane agribusiness in the municipality of Ponta Porã; d) there is an alliance of classes even with antagonistic interests (capitalists and landowners) forming a new pattern of accumulation of capital in the ponta-poranense field, among others.