Dinâmica espacial das agroindústrias da mesorregião norte pioneiro do Paraná e o papel do BNDES

Abstract

This research analyses the spatial dynamics of agricultural industries from the North region of Paraná state and the role of financial support by BNDES in this process. The analysis approaches the ways in which this capital has been injected in these agricultural industries’ productive dynamics and what have been the spatial dynamics linked to this capital flow. In order to achieve the objective we have focused on this region’s most important productive chains and on agricultural industries that have received financial support from BNDES during the years of 2000 to 2016, focusing on large companies, but also analyzing smaller industries. The theoretical construction was structured over Milton Santos’ conceptual category of Socio-spatial Formation for the understanding of the genesis and the development of agricultural industries from the North region, along with Ignácio Rangel’s theoretical contributions, through the Brazilian Economic Basic Duality, as well as the author’s approaches on economic cycles. The results point to productive forces intense dynamics and productive relations of agricultural industries that have received BNDES’ financial support during the correspondent period, allowing new spatial dynamics and broadening these companies’ increased capital reproduction movement. In relation to the North region of Paraná state, capital flows coming from the financial institution have allowed switches mainly on the rural credit profile within the micro-regions of Ibaiti and Wenceslau Braz, as well as on the production elevation and dynamics of orange, corn, chicken, and coffee productive chains, in addition to the amplification of direct and indirect jobs, along with this region’s more effective insertion within the productive circuit of the industrial sector.