Discussions about the need for installation of agricultural colonies in southern Mato Grosso (1889-1920)

Abstract

This article aims to make a discussion between the setting of the border in southern Mato Grosso in the final decades of the nineteenth century and the discourse on the need of the colonization of the state by installing agricultural colonial settlements. This analysis was based on Terenos colony, the first experience of public settlement in the state. To do so, we will use the reports as a source of state president and stewardship. From the analysis, we can see that along the cited period, Mato Grosso rulers created a discourse about the indispensability of colonizing the territory, based on arguments such as the deficiency of communication channels, small farming, among other factors.