Socioeconomic reproduction in Family Farming: an analysis of extensive livestock in Capela do Caravágio-RS

Abstract

This study aimed to make a diagnosis of production systems of homogeneous area of the Capela do Caravagio, District of Coxilha Grande, municipality of Vacaria/RS, with a focus on a economic analysis of some of its agricultural production units. For this, we used the methodology Analysis Agrarian Systems, recognized as an important tool to understand the historical changes and geographical differentiation of agriculture. First, became a general analysis of the region, through the treatment of secondary data, readings of landscapes and interviews with qualified informants, then they were the types of producers and their production systems, and lastly, the economic analyzes were performed production systems. As a result, you can check the history of the region linked to livestock production, which was being replaced in recent years by the grain and the fruit, however, kept up the system in areas where livestock producers are unable to insert the productive dynamics of grains and fruits. Analyses of UPAs show a wide disparity in the three systems analyzed, both in terms of technical productivity as economic outcomes. Furthermore, dependence on non-agricultural incomes in some UPAs, as well as the difficulty in keeping family members in the field, indicates the need for greater surface to make feasible the extensive pasture systems in the region.