Análise da sucessão familiar em propriedades rurais no município de Nova Hartz – Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

In our country, family farming has played a key role in economic development, whether through aspects such as generating income and jobs, developing agricultural areas, technologies and mechanization, as well as improving sustainable practices in rural areas (CELLA, 2002). The present work aims to analyze the potential family succession in rural properties in the municipality of Nova Hartz - RS. Through the structured questionnaire, field work was carried out in 16 properties in the municipality with the aim of evaluating the perspective of family producers on the subject of family succession in small rural properties. The collection of information was carried out personally with the help of the municipality's agriculture sector, where some of the information collected was: the profile of the property, family composition and functions performed by each member, main activities as a source of income, perception of successors and successors, and factors that influenced decision-making. Regarding the main objective of the work, it can be said that the result was positive, because among the 16 interviewees, in 11 properties the children will be successors of the place (equivalent to 68,75%), and only 5 locations will not have successors (equivalent to 31,25%). The main factors that influenced the decision-making were related to leisure, parental encouragement, quantity and quality of the area, and distance from the city. In this way, it was possible to identify the expectations and challenges of rural producers in relation to the future of the agricultural profession. Still, the vision of succession in the field is clear based on the perceptions of farmers residing in the municipality, both by children/heirs and by parents/succeeded. It is worth emphasizing that for an effective transitional process within rural properties, one of the most important factors reported during the research was the encouragement on the part of parents for their children, and also the encouragement of young people in decisions on the property.