The roça sem queimar system perceived as a productive alternative in the amazon
International Journal of Development Research
The roça sem queimar system perceived as a productive alternative in the amazon
Received 10th December, 2020 Received in revised form 05th December, 2020 Accepted 14th January, 2021 Published online 24th February, 2021
Copyright © 2021, José Antonio Herrera, Guilherme Coelho Britto, Fabíola Andressa Moreira Silva and Raírys Cravo Herrera. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The Rural Workers Union - STTR of Medicilândia, in Pará, since 2000, has been carrying out the Roça Sem Queimar project. Experience with the initiative to implant the crops without fire in the preparation of the areas. The third version of the project, from 2011 to 2013, was supported by the Ministry of the Environment - MMA through the Demonstrative Projects A Program - PDA / PADEQ, and 38 farming families were monitored to verify: a) the factors that influenced the adoption of the system; b) the practices adopted in preparing the area; c) the perception of implications for the production system through the adoption. The experience's preliminary results are systematized based on the monitoring and interviews with 35 families. It was possible to identify the decrease in the use of the cutting and burning system, enabling improvements in soil quality, higher production quality, and benefits for workers' health and the environment. The perception of farmers regarding all these changes in production systems is the focus of the study. Another aspect studied is the perception that producers have of the project's capacity to contribute to new markets, especially in the cocoa culture.
