Tipologia de sistemas de produção no semi-árido.

Abstract

Studying the rural properties as an agricultural and cattle raising production system is a methodological strategy that can be adopted to understand the evolutive dynamic, as well as it can help to identify problems, limitations and potentialities of these systems. Adopting the systemic approach as a theoretical / methodological reference means to deal with the object studied in context of the space and of the time. This analysis is fundamental to evaluate and make decisions in the perspective of a region development. The challenge is to develop tools that allow to get the diversities, which shows the production systems in a certain territorial space. With the adoption of system approach as a theoretical reference, this work proposes to make a typology of an agricultural and cattle raising production system, to contribute with a reading of its diversity intending to identify its limitations and potentialities. The study was developed in seven communities of Juazeirinho and Soledade. Eighty seven families were interviewed and the data was submitted to a group analysis. It was obtained four factors: Factor 1- Structure and production, Factor 2 – Family and production, Factor 3 – Intensification of production and factor 4 – Pressure against natural resources. It was obtained seven kinds (groups) of production system: Farm, siege, siege of intensive production, collective siege, minifundio under pressure, minifundio of intensive production and collective minifundio. Having the constitution of each kind of production system, it was possible to identify that most of the studied systems is in process of minifundidação loosing its productive capacities. It was also identified systems where strategies have been adopted to improve its productive capacities.