>>212711491Maybe but that's unlikely for the foreseeable future, there was never goverment focus on building the central-western industrial economy. From PND 10-year-plans laid by the dictatorship under Sudeco, and supported by Embrapa, to current day workers party rule, the whole idea for the place is to be a giant mechanized bread-basket with some degree of local processing and then ship its products to near-coast industral hubs and ports.
SUDECO btw was the special government agency created to develop that region, there were 3 of such agencies, SUDECO for the center-west, SUDAM for the north and SUDENE for the northeast. The center-west was still one of the poorest regions of the country during the height of internal migration, the so called brazilian economic miracle (that's why it had its own dedicated development agency) It did receive migrants then, but they were mostly farmers seeking the 'new' land, many were poor, some already came with money to spare, but things were sorted out quite well thanks to careful management and commitment to the plan despite changes in the goverment and administrations, the plans for the north-south railway, recently finished in 2023, were laid by SUDECO way back in the 60's to connect the center-west to Maranhão for quick access to Caribbean and North Atlantic sea export routes, back when the region still barely produced any substantial amount of grain.
Anyway, althought the industry sector has been growing fast there it's still comparatively small with its agricultural prias, there's no major demand for labor, also the economic and labor circunstances of Brazil are different in comparison with back in the day.