The social projects of specialization and production and income diversification in family-based tobacco farming in the South of Brazil
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The production of tobacco has great economic importance and sets up a good income source to the growers. The families show very high economic dependence on the activity, however, a good share of them demonstrate interest in leaving it. One of their options is the adhesion to diversification of crops and breedings; on the other hand, there is a number of farmers that opt to go deeper into the chain. Observing the Center South territory, RS, the projects of specialization and diversification get into conflict causing a gradient within the process of repeasantization/depeasantization. In this sense, this work aims to characterize the social projects of specialization and diversification within the tobacco cultivation and analyze the dynamics, which conduct the tobacco farmer’s choice to specialize or to diversify. The methods used were the analysis of a database and participant observation performed during the course of six months. As results of this study, it was possible to establish that the specialization project presents farmers who are highly dependable of tobacco, that produce it for about twenty years and live in small properties. While the diversification project still has little expressivity in the region, due mainly to the high values paid for the tobacco unit, linked to a limited access to technical assistance and to the commercialization difficulties that exist for other products.
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