Estudo da estratégia de reprodução em três assentamentos no município de Dom Pedrito RS

Abstract

Through empirical observation that identifies the families settled, coming predominantly from the northern half of the state, repeat the production model of the region in the early colonial years in the settlement. Subsequently, over the years and successive losses of rainfed grain crops, end up reproducing the matrix of the region's productive campaign.The aim of the thesis is to study the causes and factors of production matrix conversion occurred in three settlements in the municipality of Don Pedrito - RS. The initial hypothesis is that the process of restructuring of production has relevance in the settlements Alto Alegre, New Upacaraí and Vista. The work is constituted as a case study, based on documental analysis and semistructured interviews with three families settled, one in each settlement quoted. Documentary analysis found that 100% of the plots of the three settlements systems work with beef cattle and 36 families have as their main source of income in the beef cattle or milk. Families were selected from the original list of beneficiaries of the settlement or are more than 15 years settled in the city, which have originated in the northern half of the state and working with livestock production systems.The study shows that the region of Rio Grande do Sul campaign has different structural and environmental conditions. As a result, the interviews have identified that the process of productive restructuring of settlers was caused by the region's environmental conditions (climate, soil, topography and vegetation) and lack of local infrastructure and regional (roads and market access) . The motivation of families to the production of beef cattle are the safety and low risk activity, given this to be the best technical and economic conditions in a sustainable way of settlement and region. To support families and ensure the social reproduction, the respondents sought ways to increase the area explored, due to the small size of the lots in the three settlements and the need for larger scale production to compensate for the low economic profitability of beef cattle. In the history of past migrations occurred in the region, such as the installation of Trigolândia in 1925, the Cologne New Cologne Salvador in 1950 and the Garden in 1964, it is clear that there was the same process of adaptation of settlers to the regional agroecosystem. Different times, different backgrounds, different cultures, different religions, different constitutive forms, similar cases. Depending on the evidence presented, we suggest different strategies of land reform campaign in Gaucho. Appropriate sizes of lots and prioritization of families in the region are important factors for the installation of different models of settlements in the Campaign Gaucho.