CEARENSES CASHEW CULTURE: THE FAMILY PRODUCTION IN BEBERIBE - CE

The agriculture of Ceará suffered significant metamorphosis, especially during the XX and XXI century. The cashew culture was one of the main agricultural cultures developed in Ceará, it is featured as second place on exportation, and it has given the estate a space as the biggest cashew nuts producer of the country, responsible for almost 50% of all the national production. The main point of the article is to discuss the beginning and the development of cearenses cashew culture and to introduce the advances and permanence linked to cashew family producers of Beberibes county in the estate of Ceará. For such, the methodological procedures adopted for the construction of this work were segmented in three steps: bibliographic research, secondary data survey and fieldwork, this last one, was realized at the countryside of Beberibe with quiz applications in family farming units. The preliminary results pointed to the partial insertion of important novelties capable of increasing the productivity of cashews grown by this category of producers