Ações de extensão rural nos assentamentos Belo Horizonte e Florestan Fernandes, Alagoas

Abstract

ABSTRACT Rural assistance as we know it today dates back to post-World War II. In Brazil, the importance and application for small producers have been constantly debated. In the state of Alagoas, sugar and alcohol production is extremely important for the economy, which makes family farming marginalized, with little incentive and investment, making it of low quality and discontinued. In opposition to the large properties of monoculture and intermittent work are the rural settlements. In the state of Alagoas, currently exist 143 rural settlements and in this work, two were analyzed from data collected in field observations and interviews, from July to December 2017, along with fourteen settled producers from the settlements, Florestan Fernandes, in Matriz Camaragibe and Belo Horizonte, in Novo Lino. Persistent problems, including infrastructure, since the establishment of the settlements, and in addition to problems in the execution of programs linked to government policies and the political and administrative obstacles that family farming faces, directly reflect on how the extension worker works with these families.

Keywords: Technical assistance, perception, settlers.