Limitantes e potencialidades para a produção de frutas e olerícolas nos assentamentos de reforma agrária da região da fronteira oeste do RS

Abstract

The main objective of the proposed study is to investigate the factors that are limiting and the potential for the production of fruit and vegetable crops in the West Frontier region of State Rio Grande do Sul. The context in which developed the survey was the municipality of Manoel Viana. This research can be classified as a study of theoretical and empirical case. Ten interviews were conducted with families of farmers in the settlement of Santa Maria Ibicuí who have the production of fruit and vegetable crops and have some kind of relationship with the market. Of the families interviewed, 30% are in the production of the vegetable and/or fruit the main batch income. The rest of these productions have an additional income to other activities. The main activities that appear more often are milk (30%), porcine (10%), rice (10%), fish (10%) and beef cattle (10%). Still appear as complementary activities to colonial poultry production and marketing of eggs and chickens, and homemade cheese production and bakery. Cultivation of vegetable crops and fruits in the region of West Frontier, even with limited environmental, has a very great potential. The developed and experiments yet known bolster this idea, that they show a great diversity of species adapts to the local conditions. To production, problems identified can be overcome with technical expertise and technologies suited to each situation for the marketing will require better planning of families aiming the analysis of products for which there is regular supply.