Expansão da agroindústria canavieira no Centro-Oeste brasileiro pós-desregulamentação : uma análise institucionalista.

Abstract

This study looked at the expansion of the sugarcane agro-industry from the prospective of Institucionalism in the Central-West of Brazil, analising mainly the instituttional changes occurred in the process, as well as the existence of path dependence in this expansion. To carry out the research we sought the municipals thatin 2013,had obtained the largest sugarcane production, as a result it was found: Quirinópolis in Goiás, Nova Olímpia in Mato Grosso and Rio Brillhante in Mato Grosso do Sul. It was carried out a data analysis and data collection, followed by the interviews with participants involved in this sector at the federal, state and municipal levels. The 56 applied interviews brought information that helped to understand how and why the sugarcane agro-industry was expanded to he Central-West with a richer detail. The study identified that in order for the institutional changes to have lasting effects, must depart directly from the participants involved, as it happened in Nova Olímpia-MT, because when the institutional changes are imposed by the public power, it was noticed to lose it's effectiveness in long term, because the sector shows it's concern in a surface level, like in Quirinópolis-Goand Rio Brilhante-MS. It was evident the existence of the path dependence process in the expansion of sugarcane agro-industry to the Central-West, as well as indirectly support of the State. The sector is going through some crisis due to accumulated indebtedness, followed by climate problems. Therefore the sector has many challenges and opportunities to promote new institutional changes and to strengthen itself.