Valorização dos agricultores guardiões das sementes tradicionais de milho suas práticas e conhecimentos: casos do sudeste paraense

Abstract

The diversity of both plant species and animals, is an important pillar of agriculture in history and present, as this diversity provides the balance necessary for the maintenance of agricultural production systems, respecting nature as a whole. All this diversity has suffered a blow in the late 1950 coup that called green revolution that through technological innovations essentially allowed greater control over biological processes that determine growth and yield of plants. Traditional seeds or creoles are the seeds derived from traditional crops. These seeds resist until today because of the work of peasant agriculture in the process of attempts, successes and failures in their crops passed from generation to generation. Thus, the aim of this work is to identify the reasons why three farmers in Southeast Pará to keep their traditional corn seeds for the next planting, as well as presenting the perception of the farmer both its traditional seed corn as the hybrid seeds and transgenic. To achieve the objectives set out in this work, there were four visits to lots of farmer Michael and Raimundo and two visits to the lot of the farmer Osvaldo. In all visits farmers were interviewed using semi-structured form in relation to the use of their seeds at planting, seed trade relations and storing them. During the follow-up time of the three guardians it was observed that both have traditional seed corn and handle according to their traditional knowledge. Mr. Miguel lost his corn seeds due to the change in storage mode, you Raimundo uses on your property both traditional corn as the hybrid, which is provided by the city. Already Mr. Osvaldo along with his wife Mary, intend to continue to use only their traditional corn seed, not accepting the so-called "city of corn," referring to hybrid corns and transgenics.