A substituição da bataticultura pelo fumo nas comunidades de Boa Vista e Boqueirão no município de São Lourenço do Sul - RS.

• Autor(a) principal: Luzzardi, Roberta do Espirito Santo
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFPel - Guaiaca
• Texto Completo: http://guaiaca.ufpel.edu.br/handle/123456789/2355
• topic: Agricultura familiar; Assujeitamento do agricultor; Autoconsumo; Family farming; Subjection of the farmer; Farmhouse; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA

This research analyzes the process of substitution of potato stems by smoking and the importance of understanding the reason for the cultivation of tobacco appear as one of the main strategies adopted by the social reproduction of family farming as a way to keep the field in the municipality of São Lourenço do Sul - RS. It aims at identifying and characterizing the process of replacing the system of production of potatoes for tobacco growing. The specific objectives are: to determine which economic elements that interfere with or affect the substitution of potato for cultivation of tobacco; determine which social and environmental elements that interfere with or affect the substitution of potato culture of smoking and understand the rationality of farmer family inserted into this reality. The methodology is based on visits to the region to be searched in order to contact informants and obtain appropriate empirical evidence about the reality of local communities. The study universe composed of farmers producing tobacco colonies Boqueirão and Boa Vista in São Lourenço do Sul - RS that produce or have produced a potato crop. Primary data were obtained through the interview technique, based on a structured questionnaire to semi-open. It is concluded that: the reasons for the replacement of the smoke bataticultura actually studied are the lack of market for the sale of potatoes, environmental factors unfavorable to the cultivation of it, the subordination of the tobacco growing farmers and the lack of public policies that encourage crop diversification in family farms; the historical reality of the rural economy of the communities studied is complex and conflicting, the main economic base for farmers, tobacco, is a hand, an important farming system to keep farmers in the field, but on the other, because a process of alienation from their work; environmentally cultivation of tobacco has a number of consequences, such as erosion and deforestation on farms. On the social side, rises the high dependency of farmers with tobacco where it is clear that they aredecapitalized, subjugated, and in some cases, in debt, has suffered a drastic reduction in potato acreage, however it is still cultivated by farmers in the area surveyed, but in this case only for self, the diversification of crops is being implemented, but is still incipient, the relations of production in tobacco farming between farmers and processing company, interfere with or undermine the development of technical alternatives social and economic and ecological base of agriculture and crop diversification and lack of alternatives and public policies that minimize or prevent this exploit social, economic, environmental and human, contribute to the know-how of these farmers is subtracted by large companies.