Ficar ou sair? Compreendendo as motivações envolvidas no processo de sucessão familiar na atividade leiteira do município de Rio Bonito do Iguaçu/PR

Abstract

Rural properties face a problem regarding the continuity of their activities in the future. Rural families are aging and getting smaller, due to the difficulty in promoting a successor in agricultural activities. This difficulty is mainly due to the fact that young people seek new occupations in urban centers. This movement is currently considered a trend, so this work sought to conduct a study on the motivations involved in the family succession process in the milk production activity, in which the general objective was to identify as motivations that influence the decision-making of rural youth from Rio Bonito do Iguaçu /PR to leave or not the rural property, specifically a dairy activity. It was decided to carry out a field survey, being an exploratory and descriptive research, considered basic in relation to its nature. Data collection occurred in three stages, the first being an interview with key informants, the second the application of a quantitative questionnaire with the property managers and finally, between qualitative views with possible successors and non-successors. As a result, it is concluded that there are divergences between the results obtained through the answers of the current managers, comparing the answers of the answers carried out with the young people. The main reason for permanence listed by managers is “the better quality of life found in agriculture”, while for young people the main reasons for permanence are “existing investments in the property” and “taste for the activity”. For the non-succession the reasons coincide, managers say that young people do not succeed due to the “lack of leisure and fun in agriculture”, while young people report that the dairy activity “imprisons, because every day is day”.