O agronegócio e o estado do Tocantins: o atual estágio de consolidação

Abstract

To explore the way agricultural is a historical activity in Brazil. Since the arrival of the Portuguese, the country lived its economy based on agriculture. For these, to explore the way agricultural it Brazil was more than a economic option, was a necessity, due to the fact of the small extension of land of its country. With this, the food production and spices for the Crown depended on lands of its colony. Ahead of this, an agriculture directed toward the exportation was developed and, together with this, the monoculture produced in great extensions of land. It can be said that this politics continues until today, as in the case of the production of soy, maize and cotton and others. This description, ally to favorable the climatic conditions and of ground, became Brazil a country with great agricultural potential, what in it put them to a position of prominence in the world-wide agribusiness. The intention of this work is to show the current period of training of evolution of the agribusiness in the Tocantins, showing the steps that must be given so that this activity if it consolidates in the place and either an important source of income and job for the inhabitants.