Agricultura camponesa no município de Delmiro Gouveia: possibilidades, potencialidades e desafios

Abstract

Since the beginning of the process of occupation of the Brazilian territory, peasant agriculture has been part of the country's daily productive activities. Even so, peasant agriculture has a long history of abandonment by the Brazilian State, with very little government support for its maintenance and development. In this sense, this research analyzes the possibilities, potentials and challenges of Peasant Agriculture in the municipality of Delmiro Gouveia, semiarid of Alagoas, through municipal, state and federal public policies and initiatives or their absence, emphasizing the importance of peasant agricultural production and its contribution to the local society. To collect these data, a bibliographic research was carried out, dialoguing with authors who research the subject, the application of questionnaires together with rural workers and an interview with the municipality's secretary of agriculture, with the aid of data from the Agricultural Census of the IBGE of 2006 and 2017. I emphasize that peasant agriculture can provide undeniable advances in the rural environment and develop an important role with regard to the production of healthy food in the municipality, playing an important role within the local economy and, consequently, moving others several production chains.