Modernização, ações e processos no setor da produção rural familiar do município de Ijuí, RS

Abstract

This study aims to recognize and characterize the actions of the modernization processes in the agricultural sector and in the use of natural resources, its changes and results in family agriculture areas. It analyzes also the involvement that the globalization of Brazilian economy caused on the rural area, taking as empirical reference the geographic rural area in Ijuí, RS, Brazil. For analysis variable, we selected the use of natural resources, mostly the use of land, the social resources, the processes and the determiners of production that subdue the areas of the family agriculture areas. Systemic methodology led the study in Ijuí rural area according to an investigative model, as well as a specific case analyzed. The variable that led the study referred to three categories: environmental, social and of agricultural production. However, the influence of modernization over the environment resulted in changes that can be measured mainly in units of family production, because these were the units to which the modernization processes were more aggressive. due to the limited availability of land for family social-economical reproduction. Among the results of the research, we can highlight the change of the farmer; the importance of the farmers cooperatives for the increase of production and the gathering of a relevant group of small farms workers; practices of intensive land use and problems with soil cover and fertility, indicating the need of alternate ways of social-economical reproduction based on sustainability.