Produção de arroz orgânico em assentamentos no Rio Grande do Sul e o manejo da palha após a colheita

Abstract

This work was conducted in a settlement of MST - The Capela Settlement - located in the counties of Nova Santa Rita / RS and Capela de Santana / RS, which has as one of its technology headquarters the production of irrigated rice in the organic farming system. We tried to focus on the ways of soil management that the farmers have been performing in the lowland area, especially with the incorporation of rice straw into the soil, as a way of speeding up the process of decomposition thereof and through results from laboratorial analysis, identify advances and major deficiencies in the quality of the soil, and also the limits encountered by farmers in conducting agricultural activities. This farming system has required a very different methodology of working than the conventional techniques of rice cultivation, because it depends on the working methods used and the natural resources available to ensure the quality of soil management and the quality of organic production without compromised productivity, and, in this sense, that is shaping up as a survival strategy, which was formalized as Group Manager of Organic Rice, an important tool for the settlers present their management problems and together seek for alternatives.