Pluriatividade na agricultura familiar: o caso do pólo de desenvolvimento de agronegócios Cariri Cearense

Abstract

This work intends to analyze how to pluriactivity is manifested among the Agribusiness Development Pole (ADP) of Cariri-CE rural families, verifying the rural producers profile, their categories activities; identifying the main agricultural and no-agricultural activities; analyzing the no-agricultural activities contribution to familiar establishments production and income analyzing in what extent the development poles based policies influence the rural families activities from ADP of Cariri-CE. The methodology used was based in bibliographical review of the main work already written on the theme, review of statistical data from official and no-official sources and accomplishment of field work to obtain primary data, by the semi-structured questionnaire technique. The table analysis methods was used for results description. It was found out predominance of the familiar establishments. It was verified, still, that culture as maize, rice, beans and cassava are the most cultivated, evidencing the families concern on subsistence. Another purpose for those products was selling them in local markets. Among the no-agricultural activities, the more observed were groceries, teaching, handcrafting and transportation. It was observed a diversity of activities such agricultural as no-agricultural, with the occurrence of the pluriactivity in more then a half of the ADP of Cariri-CE rural families, as a strategy to stay in the field. It was verified that the no-agricultural activities don't harm the accomplishment of the agricultural activities, either they provoke the agricultural reduction. The no-agricultural income is the most representative in the composition of the rural families total income and serves, most of the time, as complement to the agricultural income. It was noticed, still, the importance that the retirement transfers have in the family income composition. Few families informed to know the ADP of Cariri-CE Program, but none knew how to explain its meaning, what implicates that the policy didn't reach its target public fully. It is concluded, therefore, that the no-agricultural activities and, consequently, the pluriactivity, have been playing an important role for the ADP of Cariri-CE rural families, turning the mediun income of those families higher and making possible the maintenance of the population in the rural area. Therefore, it is necessary the creation of appropriate policies, embracing this new rural families characteristic, in way to reach a larger target public.