Fatores determinantes para a expansão do setor sucroalcooleiro em Minas Gerais

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Sartori, Marco Antônio
• Orientador(a): Perez, Ronaldo
• Banca de defesa: Santos, Heleno do Nascimento , Soares, Cláudio Furtado
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Viçosa
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Doutorado em Ciência e Tecnologia de Alimentos
• Departamento: Ciência de Alimentos; Tecnologia de Alimentos; Engenharia de Alimentos
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Biocombustíveis; Projetos agroindustriais; Cana-de-açúcar
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Biofuels; Sugar cane; Agroindustrial projects
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::CIENCIA E TECNOLOGIA DE ALIMENTOS::TECNOLOGIA DE ALIMENTOS
• Link de acesso: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/429

The state of Minas Gerais has one of the main areas for expansion of sugarethanol production, and its government published on February 12th, 2009, the Decree No. 45041, which regulates the installation of factories for the production of sugar and alcohol. Among other provisions, it emphasizes the requirement of the factory to purchase from others at least 30% of sugar cane needed for its production process and implant programs and projects for the benefit of its employees and local communities, with the objective of ensuring labor and social rights. The new projects should consider the existence of other plants or projects with the formalized intention of deployment in the region where it s intended to install a new plant, considering that those projects which the coverage area coincides with other developments in the sector in the state will not be approved. Given the heterogeneity of the various micro regions for the variables analyzed in relation to the potential for expansion of cultivation of sugar cane, it becomes imperative to contextualize their potential and identification of factors related to the expansion of sugar-ethanol sector, in order to prioritize the use of areas with a better profile of generation resources with this activity, lower environmental impacts and greater social gains. Thus, this study aimed to identify potential factors for the delimitation of areas for expansion of the sugar-ethanol activity in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, considering the current legislation. In this regard, it was adopted the principle that legal requirements may change the spatial concentration of sugar-ethanol activity in the micro regions of Minas Gerais. From this argument, it was defined variables related to the expansion of sugar-ethanol activity and, using factor analysis and clustering, it was identified the factors linked to the activity and to the groups of micro regions with greater potential of expansion. Besides, it was used the Expansion s Potential of Sugar-Ethanol Activity Index (EPSEAI), being a proxy of the micro regions potential about the location of new facilities with their entry or expansion of sugar cane plantations in Minas Gerais. It was verified that there is a direct relationship between the areas with sugar cane plantations and the areas where there is greater land concentration, higher GDP per capita and lower population concentration that lives in the country. Also, from the clustering and the EPSEAI, it was verified that the expansion should concentrate in 4 micro regions in Minas Gerais: Paracatu, Unaí, Uberaba and Uberlândia. Thus, after identifying the main constraints and main areas for expansion of sugar-ethanol activity, it was concluded that legal requirements may change the concentration of sugar-ethanol factories in the state, with the growth of the activity in the micro regions of Paracatu, Unaí, Uberaba and Uberlândia.