Impacts on family farming during the pandemic in the Veraneiro Settlement, Nova Canaã do Norte – MT

Abstract

During the pandemic, municipalities in the state of Mato Grosso blocked the movement of people and followed the determinations of a state decree that established that a series of services should be interrupted or reduced. Therefore, the objective of this study was to research the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on family farming in the Settlement Veraneio, municipality of Nova Canaã do Norte - MT. To carry out this work, field research was carried out. The technique used was the semi-structured interview, based on a script composed of fifteen questions, distributed in four topics. The settlement has a total of 620 settled families, of which about 83% are milk producers. It was noted that family farmers who develop dairy farming, for the most part, experienced impacts on their production such as the difficulty in acquiring inputs. The impacts caused by the pandemic on family farming were related to agricultural production, especially in dairy, due to the high price of products and basic inputs, in the way of life of family farmers, in addition to the loss of loved ones or friends.