FAMILIAR AGRICULTURE: A STUDY ABOUT AGRICULTURAL YOUTH IN SERRA DO MEL CITY - RN

Abstract

With the objective of make a study about the agricultural youth in the context of the transformations that the familiar agriculture is facing, were interviewed parents, sons and daughters of farmers. With the intuit of characterize the young, considerating aspects like quotidian life, education, their occupation inside and out the farm, their income, genre relations and their wishes for the future, was applied a quiz to the parents and other to the young aged 15-25, in the agricultural villages Amazonas and Pará, in Serra do Mel city, Rio Grande do Norte State. Were evidenced many difficulties in the access and quality of schools/education, the young do not want to remain in agricultural zones, lacking income, the girls receive less exerting the same activity of the men, and the complete lack of leisure places in the villages. Agricultural zone is pointed like a good place to live, but do not offer conditions to the young remain living there.