Pluriatividade da agricultura familiar e os efeitos da pandemia de Covid-19 na comunidade Travessa São Pedro II, Santa Maria do Pará.

Abstract

Due to the need for quality of life and the demand for food, it is essential to seek to understand the impacts of Covid-19 on the lives of small farmers, distinguish about the importance of pluriactivity and its relevance as an essential agent for improving people's lives and the current scenario of the community Travessa São Pedro II, in Santa Maria do Pará, PA. Thus, the aim was to assimilate the problems caused by Covid-19 in people's social and economic lives, in the productivity of family farming, as well as to understand the methods adopted to overcome the adversities of this time of crisis, pointing out the importance of pluriactivity as an alternative tool. improving the lives of these families. The procedures for carrying out the case study were through the methods of semi-structured face-to-face interviews and with the support of a script developed with open and closed questions, thirty (30) interviews were carried out with family farmers. Continuing with the pre-established guidelines, it was possible to identify that 66.67% of the interviewees have at least one member in the family exercising some pluriactivity, mainly because of the increase in the prices of industrialized goods in the commerce and the drops in the income of the products of the family farming. Support from governmental entities and other institutions is needed so that families have a good quality of life, to be able to develop their family farming activities and thus continue to offer quality food to all.