Influência do regime das chuvas na produção da agricultura familiar no município de Aroeiras -PB, semiárido nordestino

Abstract

This study has the design of analyzing the influence that climate exerts on family agricultural production in the municipality of Aroeiras - PB, where the analysis of historical series related to rainfall and agricultural production, combined with the understanding of local farmers about how the climate behaves and influences the development of the economy and food production. In order to achieve results with the methodological procedures applied to this research, of a qualitative and quantitative nature, this work is based on census data from IBGE and AESA. The data of agricultural productions are related to a historical series of 17 years that plow the productions more performed temporarily, due to the periods of rainy seasons, the research also relies on rainfall data from AESA - PB, thus combining; agricultural production and precipitation of the semi-arid region, to draw an understanding of the behavior of rainfall and how important the conditions are for the maintenance. Family farming generates food production, which is currently on important global agendas, where food security is vital for human beings and the capitalist economy leads to the understanding of how family farming production is responsible for producing food and the climate is a conditioning factor for generating economic and social development. The results obtained with the interpretation of the combined graphs of production and pluviometry lead to the understanding that, due to the vulnerability that the climate exerts on agricultural productions, the lack of rain causes losses to agriculture, as well as the excess of rain, which interferes determinantly in the development of the economy, in which the production of food is based on the positive cycle of the economy. However, the questionnaire applications to farmers resulted in the vulnerability of crops to weather interference, and that man is an active agent in the destruction of nature, which directly affects climate change around the world.