Pluriatividade entre produtores de leite de Guiricema e Ubá: reflexões para a ação extensionista

• Autor(a) principal: Bernardo, William Fernandes
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4108
• topic: Extensão rural; Pluriatividade; Leite; Rural extension; Pluriactivity; Milk; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::EXTENSAO RURAL

This dissertation examines the phenomenon of pluriactivity in dairy farmers’ families from two cities, Guiricema and Ubá, located in Minas Gerais State, as a way to comprehend the recent socioeconomic changes occurring in rural areas, and the extension action in the face of these changes. For this, it examines the local social dynamics, the strategies of production and social reproduction of dairy farmers’ families and the role of Emater-MG. Recent studies indicate that agricultural households have sought additional forms of income, through the insertion of one or more family members in the non-agricultural work market. The multiple entry of agricultural income in the family is called pluriactivity, concept introduced in 1980s, replacing the term “part-time farming”. For this dissertation, a survey was done with 32 milk producers and 49 milk producers’ sons from the two municipalities, to verify the occurrence and importance of pluriactivity in those families. The research results indicate low occurrence of pluriactivity in families investigated, that signals, mainly, children of producers who work with non-agricultural activities has individual and urban projects, but not family and agricultural projects. The rural population migration identified in Guiricema and Ubá runs, amongst other factors, because lack of rural infrastructure, the low profitability and the type of agricultural work. As a consequence of depopulation, there is limited availability of labor person for agriculture, problems of production succession in the properties and the introduction of new crops and sparing work equipment. That productive and social dynamic context signals new demands to rural extension. However, the evidence of this study suggest that the extension did not change their practices in light of the changes that occur in rural areas and that the extension action is still approaching models of "agricultural" or "rural development" and not models of "local" or "endogenous development". In order to better understand these changes in rural areas, this research follows the pluriactivity principles proposed by Carneiro (2006).