LEVANTAMENTO SOBRE OS AGROTÓXICOS UTILIZADOS NA CANA-DEAÇÚCAR NA PARAÍBA

Abstract

Pesticides are chemical products constantly used in agricultural plantations to protect crops from diseases, pests, and weeds. Once improperly handled or applied, they can cause severe damage to the environment, the health of operators who handle them, and end consumers. The release of new chemical compounds has been progressively growing in Brazil and currently ranks second in imports of pesticides that have been banned in the European Union. Another important factor that contributes to the contamination of water and soil by pesticides is the inappropriate disposal or reuse of empty packages that do not reach their proper collection points to be correctly sent to their respective production companies. From this perspective, the objective of this work was to carry out a survey of which are the pesticides used in the sugarcane crop in Paraíba State. In the development of this work, quantitative-descriptive field research was used, through contact with 17 commercial resellers of pesticides and the like duly licensed and registered in Paraíba State belonging to the municipalities of Alagoa Grande, Araçagi, Bayeux, Cajazeiras, Catolé do Rocha, Itapororoca, João Pessoa, Mamanguape, Marcação, Santa Rita and Sapé, between October and November 2022. There was a high number of herbicides (85.29%) sold, followed by insecticides/nematicides (13 .73%) and growth regulators (0.98%) which are within the expected scenario according to the list of pesticides recommended by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento - MAPA)