Challenges and prospects for family farming in the municipality of Ribeirópolis - SE

Abstract

The aim of this work is to understand the spatial dynamic that involves the family farm in the municipality of Ribeirópolis/SE, with the field of analysis, seeking to identify the factors that can be understood as acting on the reproduction of family units This municipality. Thus, from the review of selected literature and through discussions at weekly meetings held in the research group on Rural and Regional Dynamics (GDRR), in addition to secondary data collection and analysis, one can substantiate theoretical and empirically research in question, in addition to conducting fieldwork where questionnaires were applied and conducted semi-structured interviews. You can highlight even if rents from non-agricultural activities, scanned from the fieldwork, are activities of type Mason, General Services Assistant, painter, cleaner and marchante. . In these terms, the study may provide new perspectives on the new rural reality, as well as, public intervention strategies, to provide subsidies that contribute to the inclusion of small producers in the production system. Therefore, it was concluded that even not showing the same potential for other areas of Brazil, the diversification of the work represents, for the family units, pluriativas a relevant alternative for the farmers of the municipality of Ribeirópolis/SE.