ntegração lavoura-pecuária: com enfoque na recuperação de áreas degradadas no Município de São Gabriel/RS

Abstract

The agricultural sector plays an important role in the historical process of the development of Brazil, and grain crops and livestock generating profits with the implementation of cultivated pastures have highlighted the agricultural areas. The sector also received strong incentives both credit lines as in the generation of new technology that enabled the increased productivity of grains and meats. However, this evolution not only brought benefits, along came negative consequences on the economic and environmental points of view. Among the negatives are soil degradation due to improper land management, as well as the intensive use of heavy machinery and implements. Because of that Brazilian agriculture has been seeking alternatives and solutions to the problem, emerging as a ground reconstruction of the possibility of integrated crop-livestock system. Thus, this study seeks to conceptualize and indicate to farmers in São Gabriel / RS a set of techniques to be adopted for the recovery of degraded areas through crop-livestock integration. For this we used the descriptive literature as a methodology to make up the benchmark. The Crop-Livestock Integration System was established in concrete bases enables increased agricultural and livestock productivity, without adding new areas to the productive sector. This is a system that guarantees the producer agricultural economic gains, environmental and social, generating benefits for farmers and the environment. In addition, the adoption of this system enables the recovery of degraded areas, intensifying land use in breeding. In São Gabriel is many degraded areas, especially native grasslands where a possible solution is directed to the implementation of the Integrated Crop-livestock. However, there are no studies proving the use of this system by the county agricultural producers. What exists are crop rotations and a close system of Integrated Crop-Livestock System, but not with the proper techniques. Thus, from the viewpoint of environmental manager, it is recommended that further study be made on the ground, as well as the implementation of Integrated Crop-Livestock in the agricultural sector of the municipality. The role of environmental manager is to assist the company in the form of different experiences so that they can raise awareness on issues related to the environment, to ensure the rational use of natural resources.