MG/ES
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The Brazilian economy recent reorientation to exportation, sustained by the agribusiness, has a great impact in the MG/ES macro-region, especially on the railroad and port systems. The transport of the increasing grains (basically soy) production is made also through the infrastructural device created by the mining - siderurgy - cellulose chain, overlapping to this configuration a new territoriality, much more extensive, of national scale. In Brazil, large extensions of the territory are articulated by the infrastructural system conjugated to the global production. Infrastructure constitutes territorially selective elements, generating a new type of territoriality. In production and commercialization of commodities, resources are managed by global sourcing, according to a dynamic that has no geographic boundaries. The infrastructural systems of each country are better used by transnational companies than by local society. The soy production in Brazil went from 15,4 million tons in 1990 to 58,8 m/t in 2004. This growth must be credited to the productivity increase and the agricultural frontier expansion. The planted area reached 21 million acres and 74.8% of the total produced soy is directed to exportation. |
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