Reflexões sobre a noção de cidade do agronegócio: o caso de Limoeiro do Norte -Ce

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to discuss the main characteristics and the expans ion of the agribusiness in the city of Limoeiro do Norte, evidencing from from the notion of agribusiness city . This city is in the micro region of Baixo Jaguaribe. It was inserted in the lo gic of the agribusiness globalized from the installation of the irrigated perimeters installed by the National Department of Works Against the Droughts (DNOCS), when they were increased, from there the modern productive activities materialized under the pr oductive restructuring of the farming. In this way, the urbanization process grows in an accelerated way, inserting this city in the process of reproduction of capital in a different manner, because the city has (re)organized to attend the productive cons umption. For the following work, we collected data f rom the rural and urban areas, a t any rate we could better reflect on the new field/city relationships. As a methodology, a priori, we carried out a bibliographical survey in periodicals and several websites and virtual libraries, using the following keywords: productive restructuring; agribusiness; agribusiness cities; Limoeiro do Norte and agribusiness; population dynamics; agribusiness and urbanization; urbanization in Brazil; country towns; productive regions of agribusiness; field/city relationship. Subsequently, we organized the research on themes, processes, variables, indicators and sources. The data was collected based on agricultural and demographic censuses; of city agricultural production; of th e rural credit statistical yearbook; and data collected in the bibliographic research etc. This data set helped us to reflect on the role of the city of Limoeiro do Norte, being an important node in the spatial circuit of fruit production in Northeast Braz il. We believe that our study contributes, in particular, to a better understanding of the functioning of the Productive Regions of Agribusiness.