A comunicação interpessoal entre agropecuaristas, extensionistas e pesquisadores e a questão dos recursos forrageiros no Sul do Estado de Minas Gerais

Abstract

It has been difficult to Promotion Research Agencies, mainly by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico-CNPq, to define its priority topics of research, with regard to the formulation of Induced Special Research Programmes, which involve groups of research and Institutions capable to solve specific problems that caracterize real obstacles in the development of Brazilian agropecuary. Stablishing communication channels among the formulators of these researches and its users, in other words, the production, is a permanent and necessary challenge, considering that the financial resources have been more restricted. Also, the Society reproves elite groups to continuing doing researches considered of low relevance and fated to fill the book shelves with no practical application. In order to know the communication among researcher, extension and the productive sector, to support the formulation of new research programmes, was the objective of this work, which inspire of not answering all the questions about the subject, gives to the administrator/technician parameters about how to listen to the farmer expectation whenever specific lines of government programmes have to be followed. Also traces a breef profile of the dairy farmer producer, who is it, what does it, what it expects from the government, which are its main problems, etc. The chosen region was the South of Minas Gerais State, because its representativity as one of the main dairy productor and also for its geographic situation. The orientation object of the research were the fodder resources, considering that 1994 was an atipic year regarding to the weather in this region. In which some herds died for not feeding. There were several frost and even the natural pasture was destroyed. This work focussed the attention, besides the intercommunication aspect among the segments represented by the dairy farmer productor, extensionists and researchers, to other important aspects, as the administration of dairy farm, the dairy herds feed, the food forecast, etc. Focussed these aspects, we intended to offer support to research groups, specially from the Animal Science Department of Lavras University, to elabore actions that may reduce or solve the main problems mentioned by the dairy farmer productor. The research universe was the South of Minas Gerais, upplied by the Cooperativa Paulista, where were identified the five largest dairy processors: Passos, Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Lavras, Elói Mendes e Machado. From these counties were selected 100 (a hundred) dairy productors previously classified (N=100). The extensionists were identified by the EMATER's Offices of the dairy Counties suppliers (including the small counties that give their production to the ones identified as large processors), as well as the technician of the five Cooperatives above mentioned. (N=64). The researchers were identified by the Research Institutions that work, in someway, in the region; which were: Universidade Federal de Lavras-UFLA, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiróz-ESALQ, Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária de Minas Gerais-EPAMIG and Centro Nacional de Pesquisa em Gado de Leite - CNPGL/EMBRAPA. Were interviewed researchers that work in the fodder resources area. Answer sheets were applied, a total of 187 (a hundred and eight seven), in the period from September to November 1994. The model used to measure the communication was the same as proposed by McLeod and Chaffee (1973), which allows to measure the level of interpersonal communication among two or more person; and the analise model used was the one proposed by Groot (1970) . We can conclude, by the results obtained with the research, that there is no intercommunication among the research segments, however, the applied model also allow us to confirm that the communication existent among dairy farmer, extensionists and researchers is in the passable parameters, according to the results from the analise model.