Recomendações técnicas para o uso racional e seguro de agrotóxicos em membros da agricultura familiar.

Abstract

Pesticides are chemical substances used in agriculture, in order to destroy or prevent the reproduction of pests and pathogenic organisms that may compromise agricultural production. The main health consequences of farmers who manage agrochemicals improperly are: respiratory, reproductive, endocrine, neurological, gastrointestinal problems, as well as neoplasms, accidental deaths and suicides. Brazil is in a worrying situation, currently occupies the ranking of the largest consumer of pesticides in the world, showing 19% of participation in the international market that which between 2000 and 2010, showed growth of 93%, already the national market Recorded growth of 190%. Family farming represents in Ceará about 90% of the agricultural establishments occupying this activity 970,000 people, who plant mainly corn, beans, rice and cassava. The municipality of Acopiara has its economy based on agriculture and poultry farming, the latter in which it has grown much in recent years; In subsistence farming, the city has about 6,500 rural workers, who plant mainly beans and maize, representing 68% of the entire planting of the municipality. The present research will be developed in an exploratory way, with a qualitative-quantitative approach, with bibliographical nature. The first reports of the use of agrochemicals in the world date back to the 1950 decade in the United States, where it was named the "Green Revolution" to this time and transformation in the world. Its purpose was to upgrade agriculture from the knowledge acquired up to that moment, allowing to increase the productivity of food produced there. From the proposed and developed studies, it is intended to provide local farmers with information about the beneficial and harmful to the use of pesticides, as well as to warn them about the legislation, agronomic prescription, biosafety, Application and disposal of agrochemicals. Disseminating information on the incidence of cases due to pesticide poisoning.Keywords: environmental law. Principle of insignificance. Family farming.