Da agricultura familiar à pecuarização leiteira: a reorganização espacial do Assentamento PA Moresch diante do imperativo da propriedade privada

Abstract

In the 1960s, cattle raising became the privileged activity of the Brazilian government to colonize the Amazon, initiating the colonization by the hoof in the north of the country. Thus, the process of privatization of land in the Amazon in recent decades was carried out by agents with distinct sociological characteristics associated with also differentiated economic rationality, but interconnected by the logic of extensive livestock. With the influence of capitalism, mechanized work and the need for capital production, the tendency of some agrarian reform settlements in the Amazon region, especially in the southeastern region of Pará, which suffered more intensely from the expansion of livestock, among them the Project of Moresch settlement, was to reorganize its territorial space, the means of production and the practice of traditional knowledge (such as medicinal), transforming itself due to the expansion of capital. From family farming to dairy farming, in the Amazon, the last three decades have been marked by a profound transformation of the productive structure, which has had a profound impact on the whole of social life, dividing the Amazon into a land of business where capitalism and its factors such as spoliation , enclosure of common goods and expropriation, capitalist activity produces uneven geographical development. And the Amazon is a land of work and life, which has family farming as a factor in building autonomy in the face of capitalism and its tools. It is from this contradiction that this work thinks about PA Moresch.