Influence of Transportation on the use of the Land: Viabilization Potential of Soybean Production in Legal Amazon Due to the Development of the Transportation Infrastructure
Fabiano Guimaraes Costa; Jose Vicente Caixeta Filho; Eugenio Arima
Abstract
The Brazilian Government has been proposing large investment projects aiming to improve transportation infrastructure of the Central-West and North regions. These projects intend explicitly to develop the delivery system in the Central-West, which stimulates the soybean expansion to Northern areas. However, basic infrastructure (energy and transportation, mainly) in these new areas are important bottlenecks for commercial agriculture, such as soybean. Even some technical question marks are remaining, once wet weather, poverty of soil and lack of adequate soybean varieties could reduce the viability of soybean in the Legal Amazon. There is, also, a potential for conflicts between the desire to produce commercial crops and the preservation of the largest tropical forest in the world. This paper intends to help in this discussion as well as in the analysis of georeferenced data from Legal Amazon, using a Geographic Information System (GIS) and an optimization model based on the von Thilnen's ring theory, incorporating a linear programming model developed to find out where in the Legal Amazon the soybean crop would be economically viable. The results obtained show that the soybean production area tends to grow significantly in regions close to a well developed infra-structure of transports and in agriculture/pasture areas or over the cerrados. The direct impact on the rainforest tends to be small. The maps resulted from this paper were compared to other mapped data (such as type of vegetation, type of soils, among others) and can help in developing public policies for a sustainable development of the Amazon.
Keywords
References
BARLOWE, R. Land Resource Economics: The political economy of rural and urban land resource use. 5.ed. Englewood Cliffs: PrenticeHall. 1965. 585 p.
BEGUR, S. V.; MILLER, D. M.; WEAVER, J. R. An integrated spatial DSS for scheduling and routing home-health-care nurses. Interfaces, v. 27, n. 4, p. 35-48, 1997.
BOUMAN, B. A. M.; JANSEN, H. G. P.; SCHIPPER, R. A.; NIEUWENHUYSE, A.; HENGSDIJK, H.; BOUMA, J. A framework for integrated biophysical and economic land use analysis at different scales. Agriculture Ecosystem & Environment, v. 75, n. 1-2, p. 55-73, 1999.
BRAGA, A. R. dos S.; SPERA, S. T.; CORREIA, J. R. Potencialidade agrícola na região do corredor de transporte multimodal CentroN orte. Revista de Política Agrícola, ano VI, n. 1, p. 11-16, 1997.
BRUSVEN, M. A.; WALKER, D. J.; PAINTER, K. M.; BIGGAM, R. C. Ecological-economic assessment of a sediment-producing stream behind lower-granite dam on the lower Snake River, USA. Regulated Rivers - Research & Management, v. 10, n. 2-4, p. 373-87, 1995.
CAO, B. Y.; SUN, M. H.; Mac LEOD, C. Applying GIS and combinatorial optimization to fiber deployment plans. Journal of Heuristics, v. 5, n. 4, p. 385-482, 1999.
COSTA, F. G. Avaliação do potencial de expansão da soja na Amazônia Legal: uma aplicação do modelo de voo Thünen. 2000. 145 p. Dissertação (M. Se.) - Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz", Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba - SP. (no prelo).
EMPRESA BRASILEIRA DE PLANEJAMENTO DE TRANSPORTES - GEIPOT. Corredores estratégicos de desenvolvimento. Brasília: Ministério dos Transportes. 307 p., 1999.
FERREIRA, C. M. C. As teorias de localização e a organização espacial da economia. ln: HADDAD, P. R.; FERREIRA, C. M. C.; BOISER, S.; ANDRADE, T. A. Economia Regional: Teorias e métodos de análise. Fortaleza: Banco do Nordeste do Brasil. Cap. 2, p. 67-206, 1989:
GEORGE, S. M.; BABU, P. R.; KHANNA, P.; Neural network model for consequence analysis of developmental proposal. Journal of Urban Planning and Development, v. 123, n. 4, p. 81-101, 1997.
INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS - INPE. (2000) Monitoramento da Floresta Amazônica Brasileira por Satélite, 1998-1999. Disponível em: http://www.inpe.br>. Acesso em: 19/04/ 2000.
JORNAL A GAZETA. Grande economia no frete. ln: Clipping Famato. Disponível em . Acesso em 26/ 05/1999.
MARQUES, R. W. da C.; CAIXETA FILHO, J. V. Ferronorte e transporte de grãos. Revista Preços Agrícolas, ano XII, n. 140, p. 12-17,jun.de 1998.
MINISTÉRIO DO PLANEJAMENTO. Plano Plurianual 2000 - 2003. Disponível em: . Acesso em 17 /11/ 1999.
MINISTÉRIO DOS TRANSPORTES. Programa "Brasil em Ação". Disponível em: http://www.transportes.gov.br\. Acesso em 28/06/1999.
NEVO, A.; GARCIA, L. Spatial optimization of wildlife habitat. Ecological Modelling, v. 91, n. 1-3, p. 271-281, 1996.
LÍCIO, A.; CORBUCCI, R. A agricultura e os corredores de transporte multimodais. Revista de Política Agrícola. ano V, n~ 2, p. 22-36, 1996.
PAVAN, R. C. Brasil - Na onda verde do progresso. Brasília: Imprensa Oficial do Estado S. A .. 2 v, 1997.
QIU, W.; WATKINS, G. A.; SOBOLIK, C. J.; SHEARER, S. A. A feasibility stydy of direct injection for variable rate of herbicide application. Transactions of the ASAE, v. 41, n. 2, p. 291-299, 1998.
ROESSING, A. C. Situação Mundial das Oleaginosas. Informe Econômico CNPSo, v. 4 n.l, p. 5-35, 1998.
SOMBROEK, W. G. Annual rainfall and dry-season strength in the Amazon region and their environmental consequences. 16 p., 1999 / mimeo /
STOMS, D. M.; BORCHERT, M. I.; MORITZ, M. A.; DAVIS, F. W.; CHURCH, R. L. A systematic process for selecting representative research in natural areas. Natural Areas Journal, v. 18,n.4,p.338-349, 1998.
STONE, S. W. Using a geographic information system for applied policy analysis: the case of logging in the Eastem Amazon. Ecological Economics, n. 27, p.43-61, 1998.
SUGAI, Y.; TEIXEIRA FILHO, A. R.; VIEIRA, R. de C.; OLIVEIRA, A. J. Projeção da demanda regional de grãos no Brasil 1996-2005. Revista de Política Agrícola, ano VII, n. 2, p. 28-40, 1996.
TAHER, S. A.; LABADIE, J. W. Optimal design of waterdistribution networks with GIS. Journal of Water Resources, Planning and Management, v. 122, n. 4, p. 301-311, 1996.
VADAS, R. G.; GARCIA, L. A.; LABADIE, J. W. A methodology for water quantity and quality assessment for wetland development. Water Science and Technology, v. 31, n.8, p. 293-300, 1995.
WALSH, S. J.; PAGE, P. H.; GESLER, W. M. Normative models and healthcare planning: network-based simulations within a geographic information system environment. Health Services Research, v. 32, n.2,p.243-260, 1997.
XIANG, W. N. AGIS MMP-based coordination model and its application to distributed environmental-planning. Environment and Planning B -Planning and Design, v. 20 n. 2, p. 195-220, 1993.
Facebook
Google+
Twitter
LinkedIn
Mendeley
Email