Sistematização do redesenho das pastagens em áreas montanhosas nas unidades familiares em transição agroecológica

Abstract

This study was carried out in Divino, a municipality in the Zona da Mata region of Minas Gerais, in an Atlantic Forest biome. The main activity in the family units is coffee-growing, but livestock also plays an important role in the production systems, with cattle being raised and managed basically on pasture most of the time. The methodology used was action research and aimed to characterize six family units and systematize the process of marking out pasture paddocks, with the participation of farmers, technicians and researchers, from the perspective of agroecology, prioritizing soil and water conservation and encouraging plant diversity. In one of the family units, 470 seedlings of cratylia (Cratylia argentea), a legume nativeto Brazil, were introduced and the growth of Urochloa decumbens and Urochloa brizantha cv marandu for animal feed was monitored. The systematization of farmers' participation revealed their active intervention through their actions to reverse pasture degradation.