Banca de DEFESA: DARIO ROSALVO CORREIA DE SOUZA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : DARIO ROSALVO CORREIA DE SOUZA
DATE: 05/03/2021
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência
TITLE:

CRISIS OF THE ALAGOAS SUGAR ALCOHOL ECONOMY: ITS CAUSES, NEW FACTORS AND REORGANIZATION OF SPACE IN THE EARLY CENTURY XXI

KEY WORDS:

Economic Geography of Alagoas; Sugar and alcohol sector; sugar and alcohol plants in Alagoas.

PAGES: 114
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUMMARY:

Always linked to the structure of the State and to the international market, the culture of sugarcane was the first economic activity in Colonial Brazil. In the beginning, its production was mainly located on the coast of the Northeast. Since the 17th century, the sugar sector in Alagoas has started to incorporate productive innovations in agriculture, in the energy source and in machining - from banguês mills to mills. From the twentieth century, new phases of the sector allow its continuity in the economy and its transformation into a sugar and alcohol sector. The deregulation of the sector, in the 1990s, with the commercial opening, promoted the reorganization of production, but caused the closure of some plants and, mainly, the distilleries. This enabled a new period of land concentration and the production of sugar and ethanol, a process that started to be commanded by few groups. The 2008 crisis, added to the climatic conditions and the loss of preference for ethanol, the sugar and alcohol sector in Alagoas is retracting with the reduction of exports and the closing of plants. Furthermore, the production in Alagoas competes with that in the Southeast, which is over-invested and supplied with state subsidies that establish a new technical level in the culture and machining of sugarcane, which producers are unlikely to have under monitoring conditions. . Hence the investment of landowners in new segments of agribusiness, such as forestry, soy, coconut and corn to restore profits. On the other hand, the growth of trade and other services, emerges in the Alagoas economy as new protagonists. In this sense, the new organization of space (society and nature) in view of the possible decline of the sugar and alcohol sector and the rise of other agents in the economy of Alagoas, is the object of the research.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - ISA DE OLIVEIRA ROCHA - EDESC
Interno - 1837255 - DOMINGOS SAVIO CORREA
Presidente - 1458194 - MARTA DA SILVEIRA LUEDEMANN