O perfil produtivo e educacional do Assentamento Maria Paz no Município de São José de Espinharas - PB.

Abstract

The purpose of this work was to analyze the productive and educative profile of forty families from a rural settlement, called Maria Paz, located in the city of Sao Jose de Espinharas, semiarid region at the State of Paraiba, Brazil. The research made an analysis of the true situation and problems of the settlement. The data were collected from the Plan of Settlement Development made by the National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA) as the first information of the reality of the settled families. The document has all social and production information from the settlement which attempted to evaluate the number of settled people, nuclear family, schooling level, performance of the agricultural and herd productive system, as well as financial support. The results propose that the settlement reflects the same social problems of other Brazilian settlement and keeps the same logical production.