The small exploitations of familiar base (Pergamino, 2002): contributions to the debate on its characterization and perspectives

Abstract

The aim of this work is to identify and to analyze the characterized developments, up to certain degree of delimiting, for his small economic - productive importance, for being established in limited surfaces and for using in predominant form personal and / or familiar workforce of the holders of the EAPs in the development of the agricultural labors. For it we construct the operative category that we name a "small production of familiar base", which was used as reference to effects of ordering and orientating conceptual the statistical investigation. Product of this exercise turned out to be possible to establish the socioeconomic profile of the analyzed universe and his structural characteristics in terms of EAPs's quantity, surfaces, possession of the land, processes and volumes of production, workforce, etc. Finally, we propose arguments and analytical problems of the obtained results, included comparisons with the records corresponding to 1988, adding to the debate it brings over of the characterization and evolution of a producers' stratum on which the specialized literature registers strong interpretive controversies.