PLURIATIVIDADE NA AGRICULTURA FAMILIAR NO MUNICÍPIO DE PAIÇANDU – PR

Abstract

Since the 1970s, mechanized farming, particularly of soybeans and corn, has gradually displaced coffee farming in Paiçandu, PR. As a result, there have been changes in labor relations, agricultural production, demographics, and land ownership structure. Due to the new agriculture model family farmers began to have trouble supporting themselves in the field, which created a tendency to pluriactivity on the farmland. This study aims to analyze pluriactivity in family farming in the municipality of Paiçandu-PR, specifically with regard to the typology and factors that motivate these farmers to engage in pluriactivity. As a first step in our methodological process, we reviewed the existing literature. In the second instance, we developed field research with questionnaires and semi-structured interviews with non-nominal dialogues with family farmers and with the person responsible for the Paiçandu IDR. The findings show that para-agricultural pluriactivity was the most prevalent type in the family farms studied in this municipality. Furthermore, it was discovered that these rural producers seek both a complementation of their own income as well as a way to diversify their family's income through pluriactivity.