Organic Coffee Farmings as an Income Option and Perspective of Generational Succession of Family Farmers in Poço Fundo-MG

Abstract

Transformations in the countryside led to the rural exodus, which is constant due to land concentration and policies aimed at agribusiness in its majority, directly affecting the permanence of farmers in the countryside. Young people are the ones who most frequently migrate from the rural environment. The absence of rural youth has compromised the generational succession and the social reproduction of family farming. This work seeks to understand coffee farming in the municipality of Poço Fundo-MG, with emphasis on organic production and how it can be a viable option for the permanence of young farmers, especially in coffee production. Income is one of the factors why young people leave the countryside, given the difficulties they face, on the other hand, when parents have good results, the desire to stay increases. In view of this, the organic coffee production carried out in the municipality has an important economic influence and social reproduction, since coffee production is low cost and with valorization in the final product, with higher commercial values ​​in relation to the conventional one. Which has generated good results for the producers and the local cooperative.