STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF FAMILY FARMING IN THE STATE OF RONDÔNIA: A LOOK BETWEEN THE 2006 AND 2017 CENSUS INTERSTICES
Agrarian geography. Family agriculture. Agricultural Census.
This paper presents a study on the Agrarian Geography of Rondonia in the specific clipping of family farming analyzed in light of the Agricultural Census in the intercensal period 2006 and 2017. In view of the transformations that have taken place in the agrarian space of Rondonia since the colonization in 1970 by the military government, it is ascertained that the classes and the production models have undergone structural, social, and productive changes. In this sense, the work aims to identify and analyze the main structural, social, and productive changes that occurred in the period from 2006 to 2017 in family agriculture in Rondônia. As a methodological procedure, we first conducted a literature review to describe the theoretical contributions of agrarian geography and then family farming, thus constituting the first chapter of the work. In the sequence, we describe in a specific chapter the stages of the research, but taking into account the historical context of the main database that we will use: the Agricultural Census. Having this database available, we opted to divide the state using the IBGE micro-regions and carry out the study on a micro-regional scale. We defined arbitrarily, but consistently and based on the theoretical contributions, the variables to be treated: Land tenure structure; Number of establishments; Harvested area: temporary and permanent crops; Gross value of agricultural production (GVA); Producers' characteristics: age, sex, race and education; Financial movement: establishments that have obtained financing; Cattle-raising: Establishments with cattle; Personnel employed in agricultural establishments. Still on methodological procedures, as part of this investigation we will construct tables, charts, graphs, and finally cartograms to analyze and answer the question and reach the proposed objective. As a hypothesis, we base our preliminary answer on the empirical observation of studies already produced and on the pre-observation of data from the Agricultural Census, which shows that family farming is resilient, since it has shown itself capable of maintaining and expanding its diversified production even in the face of the current challenges experienced in the Amazonian agricultural space.