EXTENSIVE CATTLE-RAISING IN THE STATE OF GOIÁS: THE TECHNIQUE IN RURAL SPACE AND THE HORIZONTAL GROWTH OF THE CATTLE FARMS FROM 1920 TO 1960 - DOI 10.5216/bgg.v34i3.33859

Abstract

This article discusses technical innovations and use of the rural space in Goiás between 1920 and 1960, with attention to the cattle-raising. Despite the fact that Goiás presented the low technique density, some municipalities register the presence of artificial objects, such as machines and agrarian instruments; some biological innovations were evidenced in the alteration of the bovine standard-species and in the formation of artificial pastures; the chemical innovations, although little expressive, mark presence with the use of chemical fertilizers and liming. Restrict to the “privileged places”, the innovations represent a functional change in the phase of the traditional cattle farming. In most places, the problem the shortage of techniques and the low spatial production were mitigated with the expansion of the areas of pastures to support the increase of the
cattle, a horizontal growth that reinforced the land concentration.

Key words: technique, spatial production, cattle herd, land concentration.