A relação campo/cidade no Município de Gado Bravo - PB.

Abstract

This work focus on the town of Gado Bravo, located in the Agreste mesoregion and in the Umbuzeiro microregion in the state of Paraíba, the economy of which has long been based on agriculture and stockbreeding. This research aimed at understanding that small town by studying specific relations within it through the verification of its countryside-city relation. Methodologically, this study initially had a theoretical body of knowledge in which there is discussion upon aspects concerning the countryside-city relation as well as the concept of region, among other categories necessary for the study, in addition to a field research in which the main procedure was that of semi-structured interviews materialized by all the information gathered in the places visited during the research. As far as a theoretical-conceptual support is concerned, it relied on works by several authors. An understanding has thus been reached as to how the countryside-city relation happens in the town on which this study focuses. It has eventually been verified that rural activities are Gado Bravo’s economic basis and that the town maintains an intense countryside-city relation. Besides, due to its being located in the Campina Grande metropolitan region, an intense synergy has been verified between Gado Bravo and the former, inasmuch as a large part of the surplus of agricultural and livestock products produced in this latter small town in Agreste is commercialized mainly in that important industrial pole in Northeast Brazil, where a large part of Gado Bravo’s population is often provided with medical and hospital services as well as technological and educational ones.