Produção agrícola familiar nas faixas de domínio da rodovia BR-230 no Estado da Paraíba.

Abstract

The familiar agriculture is characterized by the exploration of small farmers with the utilization of family labor, production unit and low level of technization. The road segment is the understood area enters the central axle of the highway and the fence that delimits the property private. The objective of this work was to diagnose the familiar agriculture production in the road segment of the BR-230 highway, Paraíba State, Brazil. The study area is located in the central region of the Paraíba State, comprising an segment of 150.5 km along the BR-230 highway, between Patos and place “Praça do Meio do Mundo”, in the municipality of Pocinhos (PB). The gathering of the data was based in the mapping of agricultural areas throughof the georeferenced, measurement of the cultivated area, identification of the explored agricultural cultures and the practised modalities of culture; and interviews applied to farmers utilizing semi-structured questionnaires, to gathering socioeconomic information, management techniques applied and road segment occupation. The results obtained show though not regulated activity, agriculture in the highway margins BR-230 in Paraíba State is a frequent pratice, especially in the rainy periods, with predominance of intercropping of subsistence crops (corn and beans). The management techniques adopted by the small farmers is low technological level using only manure of soil fertilizing. Of the forage species explored, forage cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica Mill.) is the more frequent, mainly in high altitudes.