Uma visão educacional e um foco ambiental: sensibilização do produtor de leite bovino às práticas ambientais menos degradantes

Abstract

It was sought to help with an educational eyesight and an environmental focus to assist the milk producers of the Association of Small Milk Producers of the Rincão do Ivaí (APPROLERI), in the city of Salto do Jacuí/RS, with an educational perspective and an environmental focus, on the importance of accomplish an activity with lower environmental impact, highlighting the need for attention on the disposal of waste and manure, which often occur through the flow to the water resource near the focused properties. The justification of this study is to take into account mainly the awareness of these producers regarding the need to review certain attitudes in the milk productive process, as well as to inform them the importance of thinking about environmental issues and preservation of the environment in which they live. The main point was to sensitize the producers of milk from APPROLERI, in the city of Salto do Jacuí/RS, on the importance of the management and disposal of residues and waste resulting from the production of bovine milk, through informal environmental education. The specific objectives sought, a) To verify if the producers of this association are adequate to the norms of the environment and health security; b) Identify the environmental problems arising from dairy farming in the target community; c) Assist producers to adapt to the standards required for productive and environmental quality, presenting ways of handling and disposing of waste and manure resulting from dairy production. Regarding the methodology, the research was structured from the following steps. In the first step, the bibliographical research was done, to help in the theoretical and technical basis of the study; The second step was characterized in the collection of secondary data, which were taken from the databases of the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE); Associação Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (ANVISA), Ministério do Meio Ambiente (MMA), Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (MAPA), Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA) and the Empresa de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural (EMATER). We searched data on bovine milk yield, as well as related to the correct method of production and waste disposal, in accordance with current regulations for the environment; The third step was the first phase of fieldwork. In this study, primary data were collected from the application of questionnaires to the research subjects, allowing a rigorous knowledge of the study field, as well as the methods used for waste disposal. The fourth stage was the second phase of the fieldwork. In this event the awareness of the focused producers was made through the presentation of lectures, exposing the importance of environmental education, as well as to provide improvements in milk production, and compliance with current milk production standards. In the fifth step, which was the third and last phase of the field work, an activity was developed to assist the producers involved, a participatory indicator of the environmental management of APPROLERI's milk producing properties was developed. It was sought the development of a joint work, where everyone realized a participative indicator of the environmental management, contributing to the sensitization to the environmental questions. Therefore, in this work, it sought to help with an educational insight and an environmental focus to aware the APPROLERI milk producers on the importance of carrying out an activity with a lower environmental impact, highlighting the need for attention on the disposal of waste and manure, which often occur through the flow to the water resource near the focused properties.