Pesquisa Agropecuária Tropical (Sep 2009)
FAMILY FARMERS AND FRUIT PRODUCTION SYSTEMS IN ITAPURANGA, GOIÁS, BRAZIL AGRICULTORES FAMILIARES E SISTEMAS DE PRODUÇÃO DE FRUTAS EM ITAPURANGA, GOIÁS
Abstract
<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" lang="pt-BR" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Itapuranga, a municipality in the State of Goiás, Brazil, has a significant representation of the family agriculture developing fruit production systems, especially passion fruit, papaya, and banana. The objective of this research is to analyze the production systems of the Itapuranga family farmers. The methodology used in this case study is based on the agrarian systems theory. The research techniques used for data collection for the field work were documental search, interviews, and observations. At the beginning, the production systems of the family farmers from Itapuranga comprised diversified crops, primarily for family consumption and commercialization of the surplus. Starting from the 1990s, the family farmers began to develop production systems specialized in fruit crops, integrated with other crop systems and with the dairy cattle system. The research concludes that, despite its limitations, the fruit crop developed in Itapuranga offers excellent potential for sustainable family farming.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" lang="pt-BR" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">KEY-WORDS: Family farming; agrarian systems; farming systems; production systems; fruit crops.</span></span></span></p><!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" lang="pt-BR" align="justify"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Itapuranga, município do Estado de Goiás, tem uma representação significativa da agricultura familiar, com o desenvolvimento de sistemas de produção de frutas, especialmente maracujá, mamão e banana. O objetivo da pesquisa é analisar a organização do sistema de produção dos agricultores familiares fruticultores de Itapuranga. A metodologia utilizada está fundamentada no estudo dos sistemas agrários, sendo que as técnicas de pesquisa para o levantamento de dados de campo foram: pesquisa documental, entrevistas e observação. Inicialmente, os sistemas de produção dos agricultores familiares de Itapuranga estavam organizados em torno de lavouras diversificadas, orientados ao consumo da família e à comercialização dos excedentes. A partir da década de 1990, os agricultores familiares passaram a desenvolver sistemas de produção especializados na fruticultura, integrados a outros sistemas de cultivo e ao sistema de criação de bovinos de leite. A pesquisa conclui que, apesar das limitações, a fruticultura desenvolvida em Itapuranga representa um potencial de sustentabilidade da agricultura familiar.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" lang="pt-BR" align="justify"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Agricultura familiar; sistemas agrários; sistemas de produção; fruticultura.</span></span></span></p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:AutoHyphenation /> <w:HyphenationZone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:PunctuationKerning /> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas /> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables /> <w:SnapToGridInCell /> <w:WrapTextWithPunct /> <w:UseAsianBreakRules /> <w:DontGrowAutofit /> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p.ResumoPAT, li.ResumoPAT, div.ResumoPAT {mso-style-name:"Resumo PAT"; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.0cm; line-height:120%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-hyphenate:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none; font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black;} p.Palavras-ChavePAT, li.Palavras-ChavePAT, div.Palavras-ChavePAT {mso-style-name:"Palavras-Chave PAT"; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:justify; line-height:120%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-hyphenate:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none; font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black;} /* Page Definitions */ @page {mso-footnote-numbering-restart:each-section;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabela normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]-->
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