DELMIRO GOUVEIA’S IMMEDIATE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA ORGANIZATION STARTING FROM THE SERTÃO'S RIVER CHANNEL
Alagoas, agriculture, region, semiarid
The Immediate Delmiro Gouveia’s Geographic Region has undergone an agricultural reconfiguration in its composition. From the genesis perspective of agricultural training took place through rudimentary work and subsistence agriculture, coupled with a strong cowboy culture (CARVALHO, 2016). Alto Sertão in Alagoas has experienced for many years a production culture based on corn, beans, cassava and cotton (LIMA, 1965). The region under study is part of the Alagoas’ semiarid region. Historically, the region has undergone climate studies, seeking the best means of adaptation and coexistence for the population that inhabits it. In this way, the region was awarded the Sertão River Channel, a large water project that reaches the Alto Sertão region of Alagoas with the aim of encouraging agricultural production and supplying the population. The great water work, linked to the modernization of agriculture, has stimulated and generated a form of production based on the technologies that the Green Revolution brought to the countryside. The peasants who live in the border of Sertão Channel started to have water availability for their production and experimented with new cultures of agricultural productions, previously unseen in the region. Thus, we sought to reflect on how the new agricultural configuration is organized and to elucidate the new regional agricultural dynamics in the Immediate Geographic Region of Delmiro Gouveia, specifically with the counties of Pariconha and Água Branca.