O perfil das cooperativas leiteiras fluminenses e a adoção de práticas ambientais conservacionistas

Abstract

Given the importance of the Rio dairy farming and aimed at ensuring the sustainability of the activity in the state of Rio de Janeiro, as well as the satisfaction and well-being of the producer, it is essential to develop policies and incentive programs created by state government in partnership with the Rio de Janeiro dairy cooperatives. These partnerships can promote effective actions and boosters, to develop the technical assistance activities and placement of information directed to the adoption of a set of conservation practices that ensure environmental sustainability of the activity. This study aimed to identify and characterize the fluminense dairy cooperatives registered in the system OCB / SESCOOP-RJ, diagnosing the availability of technical assistance from these, the average volume of milk picked up monthly, the adoption of soil conservation practices and feelings and ideas of producers regarding the use of conservation techniques in environmental terms. The work was carried out in the North /Northwest; Mountain and South Central regions of Rio de Janeiro estate, through semi-structured interviews with 14 administrative managers from 14 different cooperatives located in 12 municipalities in the state, as well as a total of 21 producers of 3 selected cooperatives. For these same cooperative focus group meetings were held by the 109 cooperative of three municipalities on different dates. It was identified by the diagnosis that dairy cooperatives registered until the month of December 2011 represent 10% of all registered cooperatives in the OCB / SESCOOP-RJ System, but this total only 4% is in full operation. It was found that the highest average monthly volumes of milk received by cooperating, in the considered period of study, are related to cooperatives who reported participating in rational use of natural resources programs, developed in partnership with the State Technical Assistance Company (EMATER - RJ). In both Regions were identified that cooperative farmers using soil conservation techniques, but require instruction on the importance of adopting a set of practices for the system sustainability production. Due to a deficient information system by the cooperatives, producers demonstrate the need for information tools availability for sharing the experiences and ideas that encourage the adoption of these environmental practices.