Extensão rural aquícola: um olhar sistêmico da agricultura familiar do Assentamento Itamarati

Abstract

The rural extension is conceptualized as a non formal education service and of continuous character in the countryside that promotes management processes, production, processing and commercialization of the agricultural and non- agricultural services, including the agroextractive, forestry and handcraftes activities considering the sustainable rural development principles of gratuity, quality and service provision accessibility. The extension practices used in the education spaces have expertise that regard the used methodologies used in theformation process or the farmer capacitation and the family farming. The aquaculture through the rural extension practices uses projects as a tool, featuring them as finite understanding with goals clearly definided in function of the question, reality, oportunity or the farmer interest, promoting the activity´s social, economic and enviromental transformation. Threby, from the structuring process of responsible production to the achievement of strengthening family farmers in the domestic and foreign markets, the aquaculture is aligned with the UN´s Sustainable Development Goals through the 2030 agenda. Therefore, the aim of this study was to perform the sociodemographic description of the Itamarati´s settlement which is interested in fish production and to check the potencial for a establishment of aquaculture production.