Environmental education as an instrument of awareness and awareness in the proper use of agrochemicals
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https://doi.org/10.6008/SPC2179-6858.2017.002.0022Keywords:
Agriculture, Environment, HealthAbstract
Agrotoxic conscious usage is quite important to a better agricultural production and preservation of renewable resources, environment and human health. It is important that society, and especially producers, take care during agrotoxic usage, avoiding food contamination environmental one, farmers and consumers. Knowing risk perception, from the exposure population is important to develop proposes of intervention about the problem with community, through actions of consciousness about non – proliferated usage of these products, in order to incorrect and for a long time. The work had the aim to identify and analyses knowledge level of rural community at Santa Maria District, in Areia PB, about non – discriminate agrotoxic usage and make intervention, through Environmental Education, giving permission to use these substances by community. The work was carried out in two stages, with farmers of Santa Maria District. The first stage occurred with application of half – structured questionnaires and after, based on the answers, interventions were made through debates and workshops with community. Many interviewers (96%) is illiterate or has only fundamental school, increasing the difficulty on reading and comprehension of packing instructions. Used agrotoxic by farmers are herbicides, especially glisophate. These products are acquired in non – authorized sells, without prescription presentation in agronomy. Packing discard is done in a very incorrect way, without devolution of receiving. 37.7% of interviewers said that they do not use equipment’s of individual protection. Those who use it (62%) said not to do in the right way. Only 19% know reading the instructions on packing due to its technical language. Used intervention with farmers collaborate to information and share experiences and examples with can be used as a tool about the right usage of agrotoxic. Environmental Education was an important mechanism during this work, bringing improvement to questions nor even environmental, as well as political and social ones.
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