Produção, processamento e comercialização de alimentos da agricultura familiar na comunidade da Ladeira Povoado de Manã, Irará - BA

Abstract

Currently, the production of food in productive groups and the commercialization in short chains have been taking a huge leap in the cities of the interior, developing rural communities and improving the lives of farmers, who live from family farming. This reality is no different in the city of Irará-BA, however, the community of Fazenda Ladeira in the village of Manã still has its weaknesses with regard to the sale of food. Thus, the objective of this work was to study the socioeconomic characteristics of the locality, identifying, among them, families that present significant commercialization of foodstuffs focused on peasant agriculture. In this way, we seek in this work to understand how the production and commercialization of food works in this community. The research was carried out in the locality through a semi-structured questionnaire, with an exploratory and qualitative research, so that the interviewees could discuss the subject freely, also having a dialogue with productive group members to understand their strengths and vulnerabilities in relation to their perspectives. future. In this way, we were able to observe that the farmers of Ladeira have an agricultural production destined for sale referring to cassava, beans, corn and peanuts, intermediated by middlemen, however their potential goes beyond, still producing several foods, which are intended for consumption. of the families and still processed in the local productive group. We consider that there are fragile ties and sales habits in short marketing channels, since the lack of public policies, cooperation and associations favor the growth of the practice of intermediary commercial agents, as there is difficulty in selling production due to the absence of own transport or collective.