Adoção dos príncipios ecológicos pelos agricultores familiares do grupo Ribeiro, em Alagoa Nova-PB.

Abstract

Agroecology, while technical and scientific instrument, has been presented as a strategic element in building a sustainable agriculture. Having to analyze how the adoption of the principles of ecological base has contributed to building a sustainable agriculture, was use as empirical universe of this study, the farmers group Ribeiro located in the city of Alagoa Nova-PB. To this end, we adopted an exploratory-descriptive, with quantitative approach. The construction of the instrument for data collection was based on the theoretical and methodological framework proposed by Altieri (2004). For the analysis of results was done using Microsoft Excel software. The results showed that the socio-demographic and economic power of farmers is composed of married men, aged greater than 60 years, poorly educated, with an income of 2 MW, living in basic housing conditions. The time of experience in agriculture was over 10 years, considering how traditional farmers whose ecological production is already between 6 and 10 years. Regarding the characterization of the production units are unique, with a predominance of properties from 6 to 10 hectares, accounting for the entire 100 hectares for all properties surveyed, setting in 65 hectares and 35 hectares of forest reserve. Them is growing more than five crops of economic interest, mainly fruits and manpower is essentially familiar. The reason for deciding the adoption of the ecological system was health care. As for the adoption of the strategy agroecological and interference on agri-environment, farmers realized improvements. Only the item technical assistance was unsatisfactory. All socioeconomic variables had positive interference. The main problem concerns the presence of pests in crops. It follows therefore that the adoption of ecologically based system has allowed for better living conditions for farmers in traditional family, which the social, economic and environmental impacts have been fundamental to the reconstruction of a new agriculture that moves toward sustainability .