A Produção Da Nova Fronteira Da Agricultura Mecanizada No Amapá

This article aims to analyze the expansion of mechanized soybean crops in Amapá, its trajectory, production and strategies that try to place the state of Amapá on the map of Brazilian agribusiness. The methodology was based on the documental and bibliographic analysis available and mainly from statistical data extracted from the Database of the Automatic Recovery System (SIDRA), in addition to data from the Systematic Survey of Agricultural Production and Municipal Production (IBGE, 2020), between 2002 and 2018, for the municipalities of Macapá, Itaubal do Piririm and Tartarugalzinho. The results are the fragility of the land structure; Amapá strategic position in relation to consumer markets, which may cheapen export costs; the productive insertion of Amapá in Brazilian agribusiness and the reproduction of social conflicts in the studied area.