Os Fundamentos agrários do desenvolvimento da Região Tocantina

Abstract

The agrarian foundations of the development of the Tocantina Region are related to the form of occupation of the soil and as the regional several productive structures of the agrarian are articulated. The strategy of official economic intervention in the Tocantina Region privileged the great enterprises agroindustriais through financial and monetary incentives, generating, besides all, serious environmental problems, agrarian conflicts and desregionalization of the property of the money. The base of these productive structures is the property landowner, the salaried work of low qualification and the homogeneous production. The process of characterized development, then, for the exploration of the natural resources and for the monoculture, was not take in considerated other important aspects of the local development, the formation of human and social goods of the area and consequently they were not capable to improve the conditions of life of the population. As alternative to the concentrated and excludent model, are the rural structures, that using small units of land, family work, diversified production and capacity dealing with the natural resources in order not it to drive the lackness, they act in such a way that its efficiency is determined by the capacity of work of each family, its intern rationality defines, then, a way of performance, with high productivity in the Tocantina Region, being able to contribute with the employment growth and income, as well as with the development.