Requisitos para o estabelecimento de uma política de revitalização de perímetros de irrigação na Paraíba.

Abstract

This research was carried out aiming the elaboration of a revitalization politics for the DNOCS Public Perimeters in Paraiba through the diagnosis and analysis of the emancipation process of Senador Nilo Coelho's Irrigation Perimeter District. The approach was based on the work in the Engenheiro Arcoverde Irrigated Perimeter (PIEA) and Sao Goncalo (PISG) located respectively in the towns of Condado and Sousa, found in an emancipation process, and the Irrigated Perimeter Nilo Coelho located in the city of Petrolina, in the State o f Pemambuco, managed by CODEVASF, whose administration was transferred in 1989. The operational methodology and strategy that were chosen for the research were those o f collecting statements from the District's directors (in Nilo Coelho's case), from directors of the Associations/Enterprises in their respective sites, as well as from settlers and members of the ATER staff (Technical Assistance hired by DNOCS to operate the transition o f the process). These statements were collected through informal conversations, characterizing a semi-structured interview type, since there already was a list o f topics at hand that had been planned through preliminary information about the Perimeters and associations, which enabled the interviewer to understand and captivate the perspective of the participants in the research. Besides the interviews previously described, an investigation of the diverse data from Paraiba's Perimeters was performed, which complemented and/or reinforced the interviews. The analysis of the data from the research was performed through Theory Construction, also called grounded theory, which has as its main objective to build a theory through qualitative data. However, this theoretical formulation was used to explain reality itself and aided the revitalization politics elaboration of these perimeters. This project demonstrated that the relationship of dependence that stimulates paternalism, forming a vicious circle, perverse for society as a whole, urgently needs to be broken up at PIEA and PISG. The IRRIGATION DISTRICT or another emancipation model is adequate to achieve that. It is implied that the ideal position of the irrigating producer in face of the State and before the DISTRICT should not be one of independence, but o f interdependence, since one does not exist without the other. It was concluded that the revitalization of irrigated agricultures in the Public Perimeters of Paraiba is connected to technological, organizational and operational innovations in all fields of irrigated businesses with an agro-business point of view.