Tecnificação da bovinocultura leiteira e o cooperativismo: princípio da educação, formação e informação e permanência da juventude no campo em Cunha Porã/SC

Abstract

In the south of Brazil, farming is the main economic activity and the West of Santa Catarina, region where our object of study lies, participates with a great volume of production on this area, especially in the production of meats and milk-cattle raising activities, standing out as one of the main milking regions of the country. At the same time in which the agro-industries develop, cooperativism emerges, which historically marks the organization of rural activity in the South of Brazil. These cooperatives, whose origins date back to the first ones organized in Europe in the nineteenth century, arrive under the influence of European migrants who settled in Brazil, especially in the South of the country. The cooperatives, who have as one of their defining characteristics promoting regional and local development through the association of farmers and their families, alongside other entities, perform many actions. We aimed in this study to analyze one of these actions that is the cooperative principle of education, training and information, broadly disseminated by rural families through youth training courses. We performed an analysis studying the actions of Aurivide’s Regional Cooperative (Cooperativa Regional Auriverde) and of the Company of Rural Reserch and Extension of Santa Catarina (Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária e Extensão Rural de Santa Catarina) in the municipality of Cunha Porã, overall regarding dairy production. We analyzed what are these formative processes and how they are disseminated in the territory, contributing to the configuration of psychospheres and technospheres, widening the constitution of the technical-scientific-informational milieu. A technification that has historically been hindering the permanence of youth on the countryside, and on this case, has been promoting a permanence with specific characteristics. There is a process of labor appreciation, with perspective of income generation and appreciation of the rural lifestyle that, even related to the great agroindustry, has been allowing the permanence of the youth leading to transformation on organization and productions methods, allowing, in part, the familiar succession. We drew some considerations regarding the implications of this Agribusiness tripod, Cooperative, familiar Agriculture, in which the cooperatives and government entities are mediators and diffusors of science, technology and information.