Family farming and dairy activity:: a study on the “competitive milk” project in the municipality of Boa Ventura de São Roque/PR
The study deals with the importance of dairy activity in family farming, predominantly rural municipalities, such as Boa Ventura de São Roque in Paraná’s state, have family farming as an important productive sector, since in this municipality 72.21% of the establishments are familiar, in which milk...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2025 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM) |
| Repositório: | Extensão Rural (Santa Maria. Online) |
| Idioma: | português |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/88730 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://periodicos.ufsm.br/extensaorural/article/view/88730 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Family farms Competitive milk Markets Dairy activity Agricultura familiar Leite competitivo Mercados Atividade leiteira |
| Resumo: | The study deals with the importance of dairy activity in family farming, predominantly rural municipalities, such as Boa Ventura de São Roque in Paraná’s state, have family farming as an important productive sector, since in this municipality 72.21% of the establishments are familiar, in which milk production is highlighted. In this aspect, the question is: what is the role of the dairy activity for family farming establishments in the municipality of Boa Ventura de São Roque/PR? The objective of the research is to analyze the importance of the dairy activity for a group of family farmers from Boa Ventura de São Roque/PR, members of the project called "competitive milk". Methodologically, the research is exploratory and descriptive, with a qualitative character, it appears as a case study on 18 family farmers of the “competitive milk” project. The results indicate that the dairy activity is the main source of income, generating 64.4% of the gross product of the establishments, milk allows greater agricultural income since the share of the gross product that stays with the farmers is 57.61%, percentage higher than 47.53% when considering the other activities. The activity still deconcentrates income, since the richest 50% of producers concentrate 64.38% of agricultural income, an amount lower than the 66.67% concentrated when evaluating the set of activities of the establishments. |
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