Qualidade do solo em agroecossistemas: a percepção do agricultor quilombola

Abstract

This work was developed in three quilombola communities of the municipality of Canguçu / RS. The objective of this study was to identify how quilombola farmers perceive soil quality. The indicators defined by the farmers were grouped into three categories: physical (compaction, coloring, texture and grain size) and biological in two categories (indicative plants and macrofauna of the soil). Quilombola farmers, agents of this study, present a wide perception about the quality of soil, these indicated the indicators mentioned above; in this way of perceiving the soil and its interactions it is elucidated that the indicated indicators and their functions are complementary, since they have always been mentioned in the condition of complementary elements and always conditioned to their interactions with the soil. In interpreting the data it was possible to gauge the way of perceiving the quality of the soil by quilombola farmers for the different uses attributed to the soil, this brings similarities and differences in relation to the other researches carried out in this area in different agroecosystems. As a result of the research the way to perceive soil quality in the quilombola agroecosystem, even pointing to similar indicators brings new elements based on the relationships with the soil and with the ancestry rooted in the heart of the quilombola communities, thus being able to measure the quality of the soil from of such indicators in any other regions, provided they use a similar methodology. Keywords: