O agronegócio do milho transgênico no oeste sergipano

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Cunha, Jacksilene Santana
• Orientador(a): Mitidiero Junior, Marco Antonio
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Sergipe
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Geografia
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Geografia; Geografia agrícola; Milho; Plantas transgênicas; Alimentos geneticamente modificados; Organismos transgênicos; Agroindústria; Agricultura e Estado; Monopólios; Milho transgênico; Agronegócio; Estado; Territorialização do capital monopolista
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Transgenic corn; Agribusiness; State; Territorialization of monopoly capital
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::GEOGRAFIA
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5505

Corn, of Indian origin, cereal of high nutritional value, present in the ancient civilizations of Central America, spread around the world arriving to Brazil before European colonization. Because of their biological composition, corn has been appropriated by biotechnology, becoming thus in a transgenic. From its rise at the capitalist market, witnessed genetic mutations to adapt to the level of production demanded by transnational corporations. Brazil is as the third worldwide producer of transgenic corn, which triggered a highly specialized and technician culture. In this context, Sergipe reaches the ranking of second place in the Northeast in this production. The modernization of farming techniques, dominated by transnationals, was responsible for the development of agribusiness, characterized by monoculture, use of large extensions of land, chemical industries and financial capital. In this sense, the referring master's thesis intends to elucidate Agribusiness of transgenic corn in Sergipe west, as a contribution to the studies of the agrarian question, which aims to analyze the territorial transformations engendered by the expansion of transgenic corn agribusiness and its repercussions in the west of this state. Through the expansion of transgenic corn production, it will be seek to analyze the production of space and the use of the territory by the intermediate of social subjects who cast their economic and ideological interests through development strategies, guided by territorial monopoly capital. This is personified in the monopolization of the territory, changing territorial relations of the field, through the subordination of peasant agriculture. This entire process has direct action with the State for the development of agribusiness, through institutions of researches linked to private and agroindustrial capital, as well as to the credit policies. These mechanisms are strategies for the territorial capital in the field which deeps the reflection to the municipalities of Carira and Simon Dias. The theoretical-methodological orientation was based the historical and dialectical materialism, which allowed to see the lines of "conservative modernization" for agriculture. It is understandable, therefore, that the new settings preached in the territory due to the agribusiness of transgenic corn had direct action in peasant labor relations, highlighting the subordination of these workers to the shackles of monopoly capital, established by subjunction of land rent to the capital, imposition the consumption of agro-industrial inputs and to bank financing, making them hostages of the overwhelming process of capital accumulation. Thus, the Sergipe field has been the scene of capital invested, under the political and economic ideology of the State, which includes peasant agriculture to agribusiness.