Globalized agribusiness has been spatialized in the Agribusiness Productive Region (RPAS),
and a delimitation proposed by Elias (2015), focused on grain production in an area that
covers West Bahia, South Maranhão and Piauí, in addition to the state of Tocantins. The RPA
refunctionalizes agrarian spaces, creating a network of fixed and flows aimed at agricultural
production, which settle in cities that become agribusiness cities. Agribusiness cities create a
centrality and functionality linking the global scale with the local scale. This work aims to
identify agribusiness companies located in Porto Nacional and characterize their scales of
action. For this, reflections were carried out on the agricultural modernization process in
Porto Nacional. The methodology adopted was: bibliographic surveys in articles,
dissertations, websites, books etc. Secondary data, which made it possible to characterize
agribusiness companies located in the city of Porto Nacional, were obtained from their
websites. The primary data referring to the location of the companies presented here were
obtained in field work. For the elaboration of the maps, the free software QGIS, version 3.10,
was used. In this procedure, data from the IBGE, the municipal planning department and
Google Satellite were used. This research made it possible to identify companies to
characterize the scale of action produced by the implementation and advancement of
globalized agribusiness.
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