A integração de agricultores, pesquisadores e extensionistas na produção de conhecimentos: o caso da rede leite

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Pedro Urubatan Neto da
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria; BR; Agronomia; UFSM; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Extensão Rural
• Palavras-chave em Português: Rede leite; Pesquisa-desenvolvimento; Pesquisa ação; Atividade leiteira; Network of milk; Research-development; Research-action; Dairy activity; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/8913

Over recent years, reflections regarding the inadequacy of many technologies recommended by the agricultural research and disseminated by extensionists to family farmers have grown. In the beginning of 2000‟s, Rio Grande do Sul northwest, a group of extensionists and researches evaluated that the practical result of this way of working was below farmers‟ demands, and the problem could have been related to the unfamiliarity with the context of technical problems, with repercussions in the formulation of occasionally inappropriate propositions. As an alternative, since 2003, the construction of an integration process among farmers, extensionists and researchers has begun to be elaborated, aiming at qualifying the interpretation of reality and seeking more sustainable productive systems. In this perspective, in 2008, the Networking Program of Research-Development of Production Systems on Dairy Activity in Northwest Rio Grande do Sul (Network of Milk) was consolidated, an articulation involving approximately 140 extensionists, thirty researchers and a network of sixty farmers, reaching 5 thousand farmers‟ families. The Research-Development methodology and other contributions on participative process of construction and knowledge are the benchmarks of the program. On this master thesis, the operation of the Network of Milk is described and the nature and characteristics of the generated knowledge are analyzed, on field extensionists‟ viewpoint who deal directly with the beneficiary families. As a general result, it was identified that the Network of Milk, through its reflections and actions,provided a shift in attitude in the relationship between extensionists and farmers as a main innovation. The attitudes of dialogue and constant reflections about farmers‟ practices result in new techniques to specific conditions of their systems. The insertion of new themes, such as social, environmental and economical aspects, in the analysis of technical context is considered a breakthrough. To extensionists, the agricultural research in the context of the Network of Milk presents itself as a new paradigm, in which the researcher descends to the level of production units in order to assist in the interpretation of this reality.