Experiência em capacitação de agricultores familiares em uso e manutenção de roçadoras e derriçadoras portáteis

Abstract

Experiment conducted in rural communities of Espera Feliz city, MG, where training pilots were performed initially and constituted the first step of an extension work. Fifty eight farmers attended of the trainings. The aim of these trainings was to attend social demand for training family farmers in the area of agricultural mechanization. The trainings were conducted with theoretical and practical moments of handling of the machines. Dialogues were performed consi- dering the individual experiences of the farmers in order to discuss about safety rules, the use of the appropriated personal protective equipment (PPE), the impor- tance of preventive maintenance, the indiscriminate use of pesticides and the function of weeder machines to reduce this usage. We administered a question- naire consisted of questions involving reports of accidents involving workers during operation of the machines. We identified sixteen cases of accidents. The training pointed to the lack of occurrence of extension activities in rural area and showed a lack of proper use of PPE. Keywords: acidentes at