Impactos econômicos da cultura do algodão na região do cerrado: o caso do sudoeste de Goiás.

Abstract

The objective of this work was to verify the economic impact of the culture of the cotton in the area of the closed of the Southwest of Goiás, since starting from 1970, the federal government, when promoting the modernization of the agriculture, radically transformed the social and economic of Goiás structures; that, it is interesting to associate the situation of crisis of cotton culture with the intervention of the state through its politics that a lot of times are not going to the encounter of the real interests from most of the producing of the Southwest of Goiás. The support lach of the stat government to the producing of cotton in Goiás has been accentuating the crisis, allied the opening of the Brazilian economy in the beginning of the decade of 1990. The great competition of the imported cotton, it has been hindering the placement of the cotton goiano in the Brazilian market causing like this, a decrease of the capital of the producer. A field research, through interview with sample of rural producers of the herbaceous cotton, it was accomplished in the municipal districts of Rio Verde and Santa Helena. With the data obtained through the research, he/she identified the economic impacts of the culture of the cotton in the Southwest, since the area is not more area of border expansion and a great infrastructure and technology gone back to the culture of the cotton exists. The financial return is not being satisfactory to the producers, since the income of cotton circulates in the area in small proportion. The cotton just joins value in the processing due the State of Goiás not to be permeated of textile industries. Before the lack of great perspectives of the producing of cotton, the capitalized farmers'possibility exists they move for another states of the area Center-West, as it is the case of Mato Grosso, since the government of that state is in front, in relation to the other states in what refers to financial, fiscal and research support for that activity.