A Importância da Extensão Rural na Formação de Inseminadores e na Melhoria da Eficiência Reprodutiva em Bovinos de Leite

Abstract

The following dissertation Degree aimed the understanding of the importance of rural extension courses in the formation of dairy cattle’s inseminators. It is known that the Artificial Insemination has been constituted of a widespread technology in the world and in Brazil for aggregating quality to the animals stock because it is an efficient, safe and economic way of improving their genetic quality. It is also known that the use of artificial modern insemination techniques requires precautions and knowledge to guarantee its efficiency. This way, it is presented a research, which was done with thirty five farmers, randomly chosen, distributed in twenty different cities of Rio Grande do Sul and who participated between December 2008 and August 2009 of Rural Extension Course groups in Dairy Cattle Artificial Insemination at Federal Education Science and Technology Institute of Rio Grande do Sul - Sertão Campus (IFRS- Sertão Campus). The research, divided in two moments, relied on diagnosis questionnaire, on field observations and on informal talks with the farmers. The results point out to the importance of having extension courses of artificial insemination in the dairy cattle’s area, in order to improve the genetic quality of the animal’s stock; improve pregnancy’s statistics; reduce the costs in each conception and consequently provide higher competition to Brazilian milk’s production.