Types of family farming establishment in Paraná state, Brazil

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to expose, based on the 2017 Agricultural Census, the current composition of the set of family agricultural establishments located in Paraná, having as reference the ten main groups of agricultural activities. This intent is supported by the predominance of the family segment among the productive units and in the occupation of people, after nearly half a century of the launch of the modernization of the technical production base, as well as the reduction of employed personnel and the number of establishments in the recent record period of crops. Estimates of the degree of specialization of the production agenda of agricultural establishments indicate that, despite the significant number of diversified establishments, today the specialized configuration in the context of family farming in Paraná is the majority. This makes a more detailed characterization relevant to investigate the association between this configuration and the advances in pluriactivity and the externalization of tasks in family farming in Paraná.

Keywords: Agricultural census. Agricultural systems. Specialized agriculture.