Comercialização direta - produtor/consumidor: alternativa de sobrevivência ou estratégia de desenvolvimento? o caso da feira-livre dos produtores rurais de Santarém-Pará

Abstract

The Amazon occupation process develops itself, of the same time of a increasing impoverishiment of the most part of the immigrant population, usually destituted and desprepared to live in the Amazon Forest, also to the extensive captalism's development that, nowadays by an ampliefied way, determines every farmers social relations of production and reproduction. This contex produced some families farms of low revenues, that often, find some restrictions of financial resources, imperfections in the tecnology produced and imperfections on market. Those restrictions obstruct basically the good perfomance of those units. The purpose of this study is to investigate if the fact of eliminate the intemediate agent in the commercia lization process, by direct commercialization between rural producers and consumers, reduces some of the restrictions and cooperates for the development of those families farms. The analysis is done with an rural producers group, that receive extension service from EMATER-PA, at Santarem-city, that commercializate their agricultural production directly with consumers at the rural producers free- market of that city. The analysis is not exhaustive, becouse do not relate some of the transformations movement that santareno producers are passing through. And so, by this reason it is necessary to affirm that direct comercialization process is only like strategy development, openning spaces for another research. There are some evidences that this commercialization process is adavantageous for rural producers, increasing the gross margin by hectare. However, as a whole, the strategy is imperfect, and so the readjustment of its actions is necessary.