MONOCULTORIC PRACTICES AND SOCIO-TERRITORIAL TENSIONS IN THE MIRAPORANGA DISTRICT - UBERLÂNDIA - MG

Abstract

At Uberlândia-MG’s municipality, localized at Triângulo Mineiro’s region, agribusiness is reproducing itself at an intense and accelerated rate. Since 2008, even though the municipality doesn’t have sugarcane processing mills in operation at its territory, the existence of extensive sugarcane tillages are affecting the old rural producers of Miraporanga’s district. Those subjects are compelled to live with this new dynamic which interferes their productions at the rural space and, even, their way of life. At Uberaba-MG’s municipality, which covets limits with the referenced district, two sugarcane processingmill plants were installed. As a consequence, at the district’s whereabouts it’s possible to find extensive sugarcane tillages and orange orchards. So, at the district lands, landscapes of agribusinessare implemented. Along with these transformations, the rural space of the district is faced with a migratory process. These workers come from, especially, the Northwest and North region of the country and from some places of Minas Gerais’ state. They come to the district not only to sell their workforce, but to realize life projects. In those circumstances, strangeness is fabricated at a place transposed by tensions that are derived by the capital’s own optimism. This essay denotes the dynamics and relationships that are realized at the territory in a place called Miraporanga.