Feira da reforma agrária e geração de renda para os assentados em Pedras Altas (RS)

Abstract

The municipality of Pedras Altas, through its leadership, technicians, institutions, and entities, associated with agriculture and rural development, are discussing alternatives to agricultural production and income for years that are capable of improving social and economic development of hundreds of farmers who could not keep face with modernization of agriculture. In this category of family farm are also included the farmers settled by land reform. The land reform settlement comprises the main focus of this research, since it was found necessary to learn more about the feasibility of development proposals that have been advocated, mainly those of implementation of farmers markets in the municipality that have the objective of giving vent to the production of vegetables. In the light of the above, the general purpose of this research was to ascertain to what extent the strategy advocated by the community of Pedras Altas, represents a real alternative for all the families of settlers, to stimulate the production of vegetables for marketing in farmers markets. Moreover, we aimed to investigate the degree of acceptance of this strategy by the families who are participating in Land Reform Market in the municipality. It led the researcher to analyze the amount produced, traded, consumed in the batch, and the amount unused. The municipality of Pedras Altas does not have enough population to consume the production from the family farm, although there are few family farmers in the municipality. The existing infrastructure is poor, there is virtually no agricultural industry, besides not providing adequate logistics to production flow. The Land Reform Market, so desired by families and rural development agents is unlikely to have economic viability, either by the distance of settlements to the headquarters of the municipality, or by its location and the number of consumers likely to buy in the farmers market. However, the farmers market is very timely for integration between settled families and urban population, breaking down prejudice, and other divergences that might exist between these people.