CANTASOL - Production, Commercialization and Income Generation for Small Rural Producers

Abstract

This paper presents the CANTASOL project, which uses an electronic platform to commercialize the production of residents of the settlement October 12, located in the municipality of Cláudia - MT. We study the socioeconomic changes that occurred in the settlement after its implementation, through the project in the community, the increase in income generation, because it is also perceived that after the implementation of the project other collectives of production and commercialization were born. To support the theoretical review, the concepts of economics, production factors (land, capital and labor), the issue of agrarian reform and family farming, the capitalist production and commercialization mode, solidarity economy as a new form of production and commercialization, the position of classical authors on income theory are discussed. In the methodology, a mixed questionnaire was applied with open and closed questions. This research was carried out to answer the question: After the implementation of the CANTASOL subproject, aiming at a new form of production and commercialization, what changes in income generation perceived by the settlers of the Settlement October 12 of the municipality of Cláudia-MT. According to the questionnaire, there was a change in the educational conditions and income of the residents.