Análise da percepção de agricultores familiares do assentamento 26 de Outubro em Pompéu-MG sobre a piscicultura

Abstract

Aimed to evaluate the perception of family farmers in the Settlement 26 de Outubro, at Pompéu-MG in relation to aquaculture. The survey was conducted through semi-structured interviews with 12 family farmers of the community interview, responses were analyzed qualitatively. These producers are part of a university extension work in the municipality and demanded a community project for the implementation of aquaculture production systems. The main expectations of these farmers for the production of fish were increasing family income, the marketing of producing a non-subordinate way, the use of water resources, diversification of family income source, the hand of the occupation of family labor. Producers realize they have little knowledge on aquaculture, as regards the marketing of products producers showed ignorance of alternatives, great dispersion of the answers, and answers that contradicted the desire for inclusion in non-subordinated production systems to wish to sell production to middlemen. Producers also want the interest in include in public direct purchase of family farming as well as credit policies, despite having lttle knowledge of how this can be done. Community perception of these producers is also deficient requiring Community mobilization work and community development for the success of cooperative and associative production. Itis concluded that the producers perceive aquaculture as an alternative to the diversification and increased family income, but they have limited knowledge of these production systems and who are not prepared for a cooperative and associative action. The success of these systems depend on a rural extension work beyond the productivist design.