Dinâmica produtiva e as dificuldades que envolvem a produção familiar no campo em Porto Nacional – TO.

Abstract

The peasant production in Brazil has historically passed through several heated debates, marked by a duality of antagonistic thoughts that includes the end or continuity of the peasant way of life. There are authors who defend its resistance and its continuation even before this technological modernization introduced in the Brazilian agrarian space. Just as there are intellectuals who believe in an endangered peasantry, by subordination of non-capitalist relations of production to these new technologies. Other thinkers are still making efforts to consolidate a process of metamorphosis, transforming peasant agriculture into family agriculture, making it a segment of agribusiness. Such difficulties of a universal thought brings us the understanding that these studies have not even completed. This research concentrates efforts for a comparative analysis of the peasantry in the city of Porto Nacional-TO, to subsidize this debate. This city has a total of thirty-eight (38) peasant communities, resisting daily the agribusiness pressure to carry out its great project: land concentration. For the proposed research, the capture of the empirical data was selected the Pau D'arco Settlement Project, the Flor da Serra (Re)settlement and the Campus Community Taboquinha. The general objective of this dissertation is to analyze the productive dynamics and the difficulties faced in peasant agriculture in Porto Nacional - TO, in the year 2017. As for the methodological procedures, a bibliographical review, field visit, questionnaire application and interviews with peasants different realities. As a final result, it is noted that even with the difficulties faced by the peasants in relation to production, they continue to produce small-scale family subsistence products, and sell their surplus mostly within the community itself, in order to compare what is not produced on your property.