Field-city relationship in the microregion of andrelândia in southern Minas Gerais: An essay about the rurality

Abstract

This article performs an essay about the field-city relationship in the Andrelândia Microregion located in the South of Minas Gerais, focusing on aspects of rurality. Through an analysis carried out between the data of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics contained in the Demographic Census, Agricultural Census and in the document "Classification and characterization of Rural and urban spaces in Brazil" published in 2017 and using the hierarchical scalar territorial methodology (TEH). Considering the Andrelândia microregion as a regional level, starting from this, the municipalities that presented characteristics different from those observed in the general average of the microregion were analyzed at the local level, evidencing the need to observe the singularities of each municipality to understand the country-city relationship. As a result, even though at the regional level the cities show similarity, only entering the local level was it possible to observe determinant characteristics of the municipalities: such as greater expressiveness of family farming or commodity crops. It is beyond the limits of this work to elaborate determinant classifications for the municipalities, it is an essay that aims to bring these small municipalities as an object of study. Analyzes about these cities become urgent so that the municipalities can elaborate their public policies more efficiently and also eliminate the idea that small towns are all the same in their population and economic dynamics.