Perfil socioeconômico de produtores que aderiram ao PROSAF no município de Juruti - PA

Abstract

Like any economic activity, family farm work has negative social and environmental impacts, especially in rural areas with little or no technical support. Agroforestry Systems (SAFs) emerge as a good alternative to be adopted by farmers to recover degraded areas, as well as playing a role in strengthening farmers' livelihoods. Faced with this need, the Institute for Forestry and Biodiversity Development of the State of Pará created the PROSAF project, which has as its main revegetation strategy the planting of commercial SAF, with the objective of creating jobs, income increase and environmental responsibility. The present study aimed to outline the socioeconomic profile of farmers who were registered in the PROSAF project, in the years 2020 and 2021, in the municipality of Juruti - PA. To elaborate the socioeconomic profile of the collaborators, a questionnaire with 13 questions was applied and the data were evaluated quantitatively by means of descriptive statistics and qualitatively by frequency distribution methods. The results presented relevant data, the farmers are all male, they are also seen as the most authoritative figure in the family hierarchy, with an average age of 45 years, married, with a low level of education. The farmers' source of income comes from subsistence agriculture, they declare themselves to be family farmers, who own properties between 1 and 4 fiscal modules and receive little or no technical assistance.