Os efeitos do programa aprendiz coorporativo do campo na sucessão geracional: um estudo na cooperativa Cotrisal

Abstract

The Rural Cooperative Apprentice Program emerges with the aim of assisting agricultural cooperatives in encouraging young people to stay in rural areas. It refers to a course consisting of practical and theoretical classes with content related to rural properties, thus seeking the qualification of rural youth to become successors of the properties and consequently join the cooperative's membership. In this context, the objective was to analyze the Rural Cooperative Apprentice Program regarding the effectiveness of the generational succession of rural properties associated with the Cotrisal cooperative. The sample was composed by the young people participating in the program, their respective parents and the promoting cooperative, totaling 57 young people and 55 parents, interviewed from October to December 2020. The main results demonstrate that the program was extremely relevant for the generational succession of the properties in all the analyzed optics, since 100% of the parents claim that the program contributed positively to the generational succession. Among young people, 84.48% of them evaluate the program as very important or important for the definition of becoming successors to properties, so 43.10% of young people already have their future professional projects defined as successors to rural properties. It is concluded that the program provided greater results for young people who had no insertion in the family's rural properties. In this way, the scope of the program is based on tasks that provide insertion in activities and instigate dialogue between the family. For young people who were already preparing to be successors, the program had a lesser impact, contributing only to an improvement in the productive activities of the property.