摘要：The objective of this study was to analyze pluriactivity as an income - generating activity in family agriculture of the Córrego Primavera Community in the municipality of Rio Bananal, Espírito Santo, Brazil. For that, a field research was carried out adopting a qualitative approach with a semi-structured interview for 19 family farms living in the Córrego Primavera Community, from July to October 2016. The results of the interviews were submitted to content analysis. The main non-agricultural activities observed among the studied families are classified as intersectoral, with services being the most frequent. It was observed that the main factors motivating the pluriactivity indicated by the families studied were the need to generate extra income and to occupy the idle labor force. The families demonstrated that they did not have administrative knowledge and the cost of production of the activities developed. It was concluded that pluriactivity is an important factor for the strategy of economic reproduction of rural families and that there is a need for awareness of its members for efficiency in the management of human and material resources.
