Agricultura familiar e informalidade: o seu papel no abastecimento local na cidade de Amarante-PI

Abstract

Family farming is the cultivation of the land carried out by small rural landowners, with the labor force, essentially, the family nucleus. Composing more than 67% of the workforce in the country, agriculture in many cities is still informal due to the small number of associations and cooperatives qualified to formalize. It will be basic exploratory qualitative research to describe the methods used, identifying where and which inputs are produced in the municipality. The research will be of great value for us to understand how agricultural families are able to informally generate and commercialize their livelihood within the city. It is concluded that informality is still the best option for farmers in the municipality, since they are assisted by public government policies and their production is still small-scale. It was observed the great difficulty of the interviewed producers in relation to consultation with an agronomist for the cultivation and management of the soil