Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso de Especialização
Perspectivas sobre a pecuária de corte praticada em assentamentos da reforma agrária do RS
Fecha
2011-08Autor
Brito, Andréia Nunes Sá
Institución
Resumen
Beef cattle production is still considered an undesirable activity for the
development of agrarian reform settlements and family agriculture, despite the fact
that contemporary studies and public policies for agriculture in Rio Grande do Sul
approach it as a specific issue. Nevertheless, the actual production in those areas
shows a different scenario from the one advocated by segments related to agrarian
reform. This research starts with the assumption that such production is invisible in
and outside the settlements. It was designed as an exploratory study, using semistructured
interviewsto collect data in settlements in the city of Santana do
Livramento, with qualitative analysis of form and content.The results obtained
suggest that people engaged in beef cattle farming in the settlements becomes
invisible both as a social group and within the agrarian reform environment.Their
labor, products and income are ignored and thus minimized. Moreover, their social
relations and strategies of social reproduction are perpetuated. Beef cattle production
represents about 10% of the production by agrarian reform settlers on the western
border of the state, carried out by locals and people from other regions. Their main
motivations are the expertise in the trade, its relatively lower risks, greater
adaptability to regional constraints and the need of less personnel. It is implemented
as monoactivity, together with milk and rice for commercial purposes or with crops for
on-farm consumption; the most practiced raising systems are growing and finishing.