Extensão Rural no Tocantins

Abstract

Rural extension in Tocantins, in a way, is a contribution to family farmers, providing information and technical guidance, promoting an increase in production and productivity, aiming at a better quality of life and increasing income for the family in general, with more possibilities for commercialization. of product. The rural extension service requires professionals capable of motivating communities, where interventions are built with producers according to each person's reality. As a function of rural extension to guarantee access to farmers for public policies, the introduction of or development of new technologies, support for access to credit and the commercialization of production with fair value for farmers. In this context, it is worth noting that the challenges facing professionals in this field are great, in addition to the reduced number of professionals, low salaries or in some cases due to the lack of government support, so that they can develop their work with the assisted public, the institutions teaching in the agrarian area present a range of research that makes it possible to solve the problems of farmers, but a large part of the direction of these studies is not suitable for family farming due to the lower technological level and the variety of crops on the properties. Thus, for a better approach, a literature review based on technical assistance and rural extension services, family farming and public policies was carried out. Therefore, the work of extension workers, after all their structuring over the years, has sought to intervene in the way of “doing agriculture” with the objective of seeking a sustainable development of the rural environment, taking into account the aspirations and particularities of the groups served, striving for the principles of ecology-based agriculture.