Control of pests and diseases in a settlement of agroecological base: a rescue of traditional knowledge

Abstract

The aim of this work was to rescue the traditional knowledge of small farmers about alternativestechniques used by the same on control of plagues and diseases of plants, and evaluate the perceptionofinformers about harvest time, dry and storage conditions of used plants. The collect of data wasaccomplished on Settlement of agroecological base Sepé-Tiaraju, on municipal district of Serra Azul-SP.The Snowball Method was used to choose the informers (10 people). Structured and semi-structuredinterviews had been carried out. The plants cited were: black pepper (Piper nigrum), chili pepper(Capsicum frutescens), garlic (Allium sativum), tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), onion (Allium cepa), ajo tree(Gallesia integrifolia), eucalyptus (Eucalyptus spp.), marigold (Tagetesspp.), Jack-bean (Canavaliaensiformis) and bay laurel (Laurus nobilis). All the techniques that present positive results are passed onto the others, observing an horizontal transmission of empirical knowledge. There is a constant rescue oftraditional techniques that were used before the use of pesticides.