Atividades agroindustriais sob as condições hidrológicas no semiárido paraibano.

Abstract

Agroecological production is one of the broad generators of income and employment for Brazilian capitalization, however, conflicts in its production chain have caused disturbances in the financial well-being of cultivation, which has altered the impracticability of production and consumption. Economic growth and exploitation of the rural environment have often been hampered by the absence of more realistic planning based on knowledge of natural resources and the dynamics of their appropriation. Thus, in order to understand a very important market niche for the semi-arid region, this work aimed to identify the main agro-industrial activities developed in the semi-arid region of Paraiba, considering the hydrological conditions of the region, pointing out the main activities developed by family farming. In the course of the research, we dialogued with varied documentation both in terms of official documentation and academic productions that allowed us to understand issues inherent to the theme. In this path, the foundations were guided by the assumptions of authors who discuss agribusiness, family farming and other interconnected themes. Thus, we perceive facts inherent to the historical moments that marked the development of family farming in the semi-arid region of Paraiba, in the context of hydrological inconstancies. To carry out this study, research was carried out, visits to public institutions linked to development and production in the semi-arid region of Paraiba, visits to production areas, in addition to the data collected and arranged in spreadsheets, which allowed an analysis of the hydrological potential of the region and the production resulting from a strategy of coherent use of this potential as a strategy for overcoming and reinventing work and production techniques. Considering the catalogued information and the analysis carried out, it was possible to observe that the history of the semi-arid region of Paraiba does not differ from other areas of the Northeast region, which, culturally and historically, is conventionally characterized as an unproductive region. Therefore, we show that from the public policies undertaken and from a break with the traditional paradigms rooted in the country’s culture, there was a reorganization of the productive spaces and use of water resources to enter the 21st century, as an important pole of production and development.