TIPIFICAÇÃO DA AGRICULTURA FAMILIAR NO MUNICIPIO DE ICAPUÍ-CE

• Published in: Caatinga Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 123 - 131
• Main Authors: Frederico Silva Thé Pontes, Patrício Borges Maracajá, Francisca Elizângela Rodrigues, Frederico Silva Thé Pontes Filho, Felipe Moura Pontes
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido 01-01-2007
• ISSN: 0100-316X; 1983-2125

This work makes a approach of the familiar agriculture of the Assentamento Redonda in the City of Icapuí in the State of the Ceará, objectifying tytisy to identify, to classify the familiar agriculturists having for base the survival strategies put in practical for these actors in the process of local development. The methodology adopted in the work searched to make possible adequate knowledge of the agricultural activity and the agricultural agriculturist, through the analysis of economic performance and parameters that they make possible to measure the stimulus to the investment in the production, as well as the degrees of integration to the market and specialization of the production. In accordance with the gotten results, in the studied locality, the properties are considered integrated to the market and possess greater specialization in the cattle production and of cashew chestnut. Between the studied producers, it has low stimulus to invest in the farming production; this if must to the fact from that the majority of the income of the seated ones is proceeding from other sources as: retirements, pensions, stock market family (bolsa família), wages and others, what it becomes the agricultural activity relatively less attractive. Words Key: Tipificação, Familiar Agriculture, System of Production, Icapuí-ce.