Caracterização das propriedades leiteiras do Assentamento Alegria, Marabá – Pa

Abstract

The objective of this study was to characterize the milk production systems adopted by farmers of the settlement Joy Project, Maraba-PA, based on social, economic and husbandry, to contribute to the maintenance and improvement of dairy farming in the region. Applied a semi-structured questionnaire to a sample population of 15 farmers in January and February 2016, with information that characterized the farmer within the context of family farming and the data were analyzed with application of descriptive analysis measures. It was observed that farmers have to dairy farming as an alternative to the maintenance of families. Farmers develop dairy farming are relatively older aged between 63-70, representing 40% of the sample. Farmers have a very rudimentary infrastructure for the management of the herd. if contacted that only one respondent has a tank of expansion and is building a milking shed to work with mechanical milking. However, there are barriers to the development of dairy farming in the settlement Joy Project, which are related mainly to health, reproductive, genetic and nutritional management of the herd and the low level of training of human resources involved in the activity.