Análise de proposta de parceria para instalação de canaviais entre uma usina sucroalcooleira e a comunidade de assentamento de reforma agrária: relato de caso

Abstract

The Brazilian land reform aims at repair the injustices and inefficiencies inherent of the Brazilian agrarian space formation, promoting access to land and productive use of it. Like this, were created polices that promote the productive development of implanted settlements of land reform policy, such as agroindustrialization policies. In the context of these actions, projects that aim to insert family farm in the ethanol production sector were detected as a new trendy. Were analyzed a proposal for a productive partnership between a settlement of the land reform in Pompéu-MG, with an ethanol-producing industry of the region. The participant observation methodology were used to collect information pertinent to the proposed partnership. Two actors involved with the proposal, the settlers and the technicians of ATER - technical assistance and rural extension, were surveyed. The proposal consisted in the attempt of the industry to sign partnership agreements with the settlers. At this sign, the contractor would provide seedlings, buy the production for three years and rent the machinery related to the sugar cane production. Settlers would have to take credit from PRONAF (National Program of Family Farm) to pay for the initial soil preparation. In this sense, were reported that the agent of local banking institution, participated in the meetings related to the proposal and this one promised credit approval for this work. Were obtained that the settlers understood the proposal like disadvantageous, whereas the technical staff of the ATER understood that the proposal would be advantageous for the settlers. The reports presented evidence an initiative by the company to benefit from a public policy focused on family agriculture. The way in which the proposed partnership has taken place, demonstrates how the Brazilian rural elite reproduces a patrimonialist culture surrounded by privileges to the less capitalized sectors of society.