PRODUÇÃO DE ALGODÃO AGROECOLÓGICO NO ASSENTAMENTO MARGARIDA MARIA ALVES I

Abstract

The Settlement Margarida Maria Alves was producing cotton in the traditional molds of family production, with the use of agrochemicals for the elimination of pests and diseases in agricultural crops. As of 2006, about three family farmers began a process of agroecological transition, a work that encouraged others to produce without poison, from the change in the dynamics of traditional production. The process of agroecological transition in the Settlement occurred through an exchange visit at Queimadas settlement, located in the municipality of Remígio - PB, in which a family farmer named Zé de Sinésio, through experience in his lot, observing a cotton leg Mocó (G. hirsutum L, r marie galante Hutch), observed how the plague of the beetle behaved at different times of the year, in the summer (dry season) and winter (rainy season) of the region. The experience of the farmer Zé de Sinésio was cataloged and evidenced in 2005 through the project "Participative School of Cotton", developed by Embrapa Algodão in partnership with the NGO ARRIBAÇÃ, with that, a process of Agroecological transition begins in the Settlement, Initiated by the dissemination of work, knowledge and know-how, using oral communication ("word of mouth") among farmers, other communities were interested in the experience, making the dynamics of the process of agroecological transition perpetuated by various regions . In this way, the objective of this work is to study the process of agroecological transition in cotton cultivation in the Settlement Margarida Maria Alves I. The methodology used was a descriptive research that observed the facts that occurred, the records of the activities done, the analyzes, the Given classifications and their interpretations. The analyzes were done in a qualitative way, submitted to a descriptive statistic that will be represented in the form of graphs, photographs and description of the research done by farmers. The results of the research present information about the formation of the settlement in which it explains how was the process of struggle for land, presents a model of associativism model present in the settlement bringing caveats of how this process enhances the association mainly through collective work, as a result of Research shows that the majority of farmers began the process of agroecological transition in the year of 2007, presents how the crops in the process of agroecological transition in their crop dealings, from the time of planting until the moment of commercialization, are being worked on. Difficulties encountered in the settlement and the progress they have made throughout the agroecological transition process.