Estudo de caso de uma propriedade da agricultura familiar produtora de leite em Aceguá RS

Abstract

This work is subject to family farming and milk production in Aceguá / RS. The aim of this study is to identify the main problems of a family farmer milk producer in Aceguá / RS. an open interview with the owners to better understand how their way of life, how is your production system and what their main problems was held. Soon after the interview were studied the main difficulties of the property and made suggestions for improvements to the same. These results show that even the producer being faced with many difficulties, produced in a small area and getting a return below need not give up milk production. For milk production the producer is like a salary, that is, producing any amount it has a value to receive at the end of the month. Another alternative found by the producer is selling the animals on the property. When the budget squeezes it sells some animal (cow, calf) to pay the bills. Milk production is very tiring and has a very low yield in relation to the availability of skilled labor that it requires, but for this family that is already many years in this activity, move to another segment would declare bankruptcy itself. Keywords