FÉLIX, Francisco William Uchôa.
Abstract:
This study aimed to diagnose of the Family Agriculture in he District of São
Gonçalo, in the city of Sousa / PB. In three Annexes (Annex 1, Annex ll and Annex 111) of
the settlers there exist, at random, the banks of the Irrigated Perimeter of São
Gonçalo, in the period January to June of 2009. The evaluations were performed
through the development and implementation of a questionnaire to interview and
asked questions directly to members of families that live exclusively on income from
family famling. Land used for the planting of banana and coconut were donated by
DNOCS, through the size of standard lots. Farmers who are pare of the system of
family farming in the área, the "Cologne" is dedicated to the work of agriculture
steadily, since its origins, is a system that comes from generation to generation, until
the present day. The economic profitability is the major reason for setting the man on the
field through the family farm, because eveíyone is happy, because they claim not to
have other means of bife for survival and with that income that most have acquired
their own home, cars, bikes, urban band, and education for children as well as the
labor market guaranteed to them in their own land, etc.. To have an idea of income in
the ürst six months of the year, just knowing that the gross income of all workers
together, passed the house of R $ 4,000,000.00 (Four million U.S. dollars), all
purchased with the work of 483 families in 483 plots, measuring 4.5 hectares each,
towards the cultivation of dwarf coconut and banana Nanica with irrigation by drip fed
by gravity and center channel and the total área reaching adjacent the perimeter of
which is 5548 hectares . The production is som through trucks an average of 15 trucks
per day, with ll tons each, to the Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Recife and Natal. But
with these gains was that the majority of workwers, have developed and acquired some
economic proültability, contributing to the development of the region of the Province
of São Gonçalo, in the municipality of Sousa/PB., by family farming.
