importância da adubação verde na diversificação da produção agrícola: uma abordagem participativa em assentamento rural na Baixada Fluminense

Abstract

The present work was performed with families of the Agrarian Reform Settlement Promised Land (Terra Prometida), located in the cities of Nova Iguaçu and Duque de Caxias, in Fluminense Lowland (Baixada Fluminense), in the State of Rio de Janeiro. It aimed to evaluate strategies of management of productive systems, using green manure as a practice that contributes to the dynamics of agroecosystems, with its multiple functions. For this purpose, Demonstrative Units were set in the Integrated System of Agroecological Production (SIPA - “Fazendinha Agroecológica km 47”) and in the Promised Land Settlement. A set of participatory methodological tools, based on the principles of research-action, was used, which oriented the development of the proposed actions and made it possible, in an integrated form, the practical evaluation of the sustainability of the practices, using indicators related to soil quality and crops health. The presented experience is inserted in the context of the strategy of performance of Coopaterra - Cooperative of Agroecological Producers Fertile Land, an aspect that allowed the collective conduction of the process together with the settlers, in a multiplying and participatory perspective. This was done recognizing the socio-economic importance of the areas of agrarian reform settlement and their families, as transforming agents of their own reality. The results are, mainly, in the appropriation of the practices by the settlers and the process of experimentation and exchange of knowledge carried out. However, it is required the continuity of the practices, on the basis of the actual conditions of the settlement and increasing their use for a larger set of settled families