The expansion of the agricultural frontier in the north of the state of Mato Grosso and the emergence of “planted” cities: Sinop (MT), an agribusiness city?

Abstract

The rural-city relationship is created and intensified as a result of the advance of the agribusiness productive market. It is relevant to highlight that the forms of resistance to this productive market are always intrinsic in the city and the countryside, in productive backyards, in farms, in the quilombos, among other ways, diversifying the manners in which society relates to nature. In this article, we intend to discuss the process of implantation of a city “planted” in the advance of the agricultural frontier in the northern region of the state of Mato Grosso, specifically in the city of Sinop, to later understand if it can in fact be classified as a city of agribusiness. For this, bibliographic research, documentary research, specifically IBGE data and field research were used for the analysis of the urban landscape, considering that the main focus is the city. It is hoped that this text will contribute to the discussions inherent to the city in question, especially about its polarizing role in the region in which it is inserted.

Keywords:
Countryside-city relationship; agribusiness; soy