Comportamento sustentável dos produtores rurais no Cariri e no Sertão Paraibano.

Abstract

In Brazil, íàmily famling is present in social and economia fomes. It is characterized by work, production and domestic units, where it forms a very present and signiHlcant way of lide in the fomlation of the Brazilian social fabril, particularly in the environment rural. Based on this, the objective of this work is to analyze the behavior of the rural producers of the municipalities of Livramento and Triunfo, respectively in the Cariri and Senão regions of Paraíba, on aspects related to the sustainability of the rural productive chaín. The municipality of Triunfo presents an age group of 66% male rural producers, and in the Cariri region of Paraíba, the municipality of Livramento, the largest share of rural women is about 62.5 %. The data were obtained through gemi-structured interviews with 40 associated rural producers and based on these data the quality of lide, social capital and environmental índices were calculated, in order to calculate the sustainability index and evaluate the levei of sustainability in the two municípalities under study. Dle results of the survey revealed that only the municipality of Livramento reached the average levei of sustainability. When analyzing the quality of bife índices in the two regions under study, it was shown that this index w&s an indicador that contributed equally in the two áreas under study, in the social capital index only the municipality of Livramento presented numbers that classííied it in the middle levei, in relation to the environmental indicator the two municipalities obtained results of low levei of environmental preservation. It is noted that the rural producers of the two studied áreas need a greater awareness regarding the preservation of the environment, se that they carry out their activities in harmony with the environment.