Dinâmica do desenvolvimento socioeconômico da mesorregião leste maranhense

Abstract

Through the expansion of soy culture in the East Mesoregion of Maranhense, it is of great importance to verify how much this culture drives the development of the cities that compose it. Thus, the objective of this work is to Identify the main factors that characterize the level of development of the municipalities of the East Mesoregion of Maranhense. This work was carried out from the use of secondary data obtained through bibliographic research of any document that had information on development indicators, economic development and growth, grain market and other subjects of interest to the study, such as research institutes, productive organizations, municipal agriculture departments, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and the Maranhense Institute of Socioeconomic and Cartographic Studies (IMESC). Five dimensions composed of 50 variables were considered. As a statistical method, factor analysis was used. The analysis of the dimensions showed us that the East Maranhense mesoregion is formed by a population considered young, with low educational levels and with the economic sector supported by administrative services and commerce and that shows little participation of agriculture and industry, two important sectors in the generation of employment and income. In agriculture, temporary crops are highlighted, but with a low technological level, except for the soybean crop that expands in the Chapadinha micro-region, but, by the analysis, it still does not show prominence in the growth and development of its municipalities, since the best results were observed. in the municipalities of Timon, Caxias and Codó