As estratégias de sobrevivência do pequeno agricultor familiar de São José do Itaporã. Município de Muritiba. Recôncavo da Bahia

Abstract

The present text aim to identify the survival strategy of the small farmers of the village of São José of Itaporã that is part of Muritiba city, Recôncavo of Bahia. It is methodologicolly a case study and the data used in this study were got from an empiric research, accomplished July between and November 2003. Those data were collected through forms and interviews in order to permit in a qualitative and quantitative analysis, with utilization of specialized literature. That methodological procedure allowed to identify the local family farmer's profile and the main characteristics of its production system. Was possible perceived thol the most, of the small family farmers, lives in poor conditions with lack, of infrastructure and using secular agricultural practices that results in low profis from agriculture. That situation can be changed with intervations which provide the access to the land, to the loans, to the technology and the improvement of the level of instruction of the forms promoting a mentality change that improve the family farmer's self-confidence.