A organização espacial como dimensão da totalidade construída pelo Canal do Sertão em Alagoas

Abstract

The Região Geográfica Imediata de Delmiro Gouveia has undergone an agricultural reconfiguration in its composition. From the genesis perspective of agricultural training took place through rudimentary work and subsistence agriculture, coupled with a strong cowboy culture (CARVALHO, 2016). Alto Sertão alagoano has experienced for many years a production culture based on corn, beans, cassava and cotton (LIMA, 1965). The region under study is part of the Alagoas’ semiarid region. Historically, the region has undergone climate studies, seeking the best means of adaptation and coexistence for the population that inhabits it. In this way, the region was awarded the Canal do Sertão, a large water project that reaches the Alto Sertão region of Alagoas with the aim of encouraging agricultural production and supplying the population. The great water work, linked to the modernization of agriculture, has stimulated and generated a form of production based on the technologies that the Green Revolution brought to the countryside. The peasants who live in the border of Canal do Sertão started to have water availability for their production and experimented with new cultures of agricultural productions, previously unseen in the region. Thus, we sought to reflect on how the new agricultural configuration is organized and to elucidate the new regional agricultural dynamics in the Região Geográfica Imediata de Delmiro Gouveia, specifically with the counties of Água Branca, Delmiro Gouveia and Pariconha.