Impactos do uso de agrotóxicos no cultivo intensivo de pepino: um estudo de caso no assentamento São Paulo - RS

Abstract

From the beginning of agriculture to the present day, the use of chemical substances in food crops is a reality, but only after the green revolution has the increase in agricultural productivity been linked to the intensive use of synthetic fertilizers and agrochemicals. Through studies carried out by the Program for the Analysis of Agrochemical Waste in Foods and the National System of Toxic-pharmacological Information, it has been shown that a large number of substances that can cause severe damage to human health, many still unknown, contaminate a large part of the food consumed by the population today. Among the most contaminated foods are cucumbers. Therefore, the present work sought to investigate the impacts of the use of agrochemicals in the intensive cultivation of cucumbers in lots of the settlement, Pontal do Paranapanema - SP. An audiotape semistructured interview was carried out, subdivided into 7 blocks: "Fight for land"; "Cucumber culture entry"; "Step-by-step of cucumber cultivation"; "Work Organization in the production unit"; "Survey of products used", "Symptoms of intoxication" and “Agroecology”. It was observed that the productive system interferes in the work family organization, affecting directly and indirectly all, especially the young and women. Consequently, dependence and subordination to the productive system and its costs and the constant indebtedness of the producers are generated. It was also verified the use of agrochemicals not authorized for the crop, without the use or use in part of the EPIs, as well as the incompatibility between the grace period, the management and the harvest. It is therefore concluded that farmers are subject to loss of the organizational capacity of their family and the peasant productive form as well as there are numerous risks to their health.