DIAGNOSIS THE USE OF LIME AND FERTILIZATION TECHNIQUES IN A AGRICULTURAL ASSENTAMENT OF SÃO PAULO STATE: CASE STUDY

Abstract

In the context of the project “Development and qualification of agriculturists in the use of techniques for correction of the ground in agricultural assentament”, the identification of the use of agricultural techniques becomes necessary as an important tool for decision taking, mainly in regards to the public politics of Assistance Technique and Agricultural Extension (ATER). In such a way, the present study it had for objective to diagnosis the use of lime and fertilization techniques in these agricultural assentament in order to identify possible public politics ATER. Of the total of boarded families, 79.89% had answered to the questionnaire elaborated for this diagnosis. The field research was carried through application of questionnaire elaborated for this study and the analysis of the results divided in profile of the beneficiaries, knowledge of techniques of ground handling and agricultural use of the areas of the Projects of Assentament for the beneficiaries. It was concluded that even so the great majority of the beneficiaries agricultural area and farmers to be declared diligent of this information are not in coherence with the one of knowledge of the type of ground, therefore, this type of understanding of the landscape is primordial for the taking of decision with regard to the agricultural use of the ground, moreover, the access to the knowledge and use of the techniques of lime and fertilization comes diminishing in the agricultural assentament under validity of II National Plan of the Agrarian Reformation, what it enters in total discord with the premises of the same. It fits here to detach the importance of public politics ATER directed these beneficiaries of the Agrarian Reformation, mainly with regard to the ground handling.