A matriz produtiva agrícola de um município : o caso de Frederico Westphalen - RS.

Abstract

The present research aimed to identify the productive matrice practiced by formers of Frederico Westphalen town lo cated in Rio Grande do Sul state. The research was realized in the town mentioned before, considered its regional representative, climaate, topography and mainly the cultural aspect, once many regional towns have their origen in Frederico Westphalen. The methodology used was divided in stages. The first stage was divided handles of the identificacion and determination of research area. The method close to research was the hipothetic inference conception, according to POPPER ( 1974, 1980). The method led the investigation to confirm the proposed hypotheses. The results obtained Witter the research which tried to identify the productive matrice, shows that in Frederico Westphalen town there are there producers categories. In first category is the group that have many difficulties, in the second one are the intermediate group Witter improvement possibilities, and in the end a third group in better situation. In the conclusive part are described: the income situation of each identified formers group; the causes of this factor, the possibilities and difficulties detected during the analysis. The better attention was given to the farmers were show lower income in their activities. The research is concluided with the corroboration of the initial hypotheses. The paper opportunized to describe some possibilities that can be developed to offer ways in the farmers’ income.