Caracterização e análise da gestão de agricultores irrigantes por sistema de aspersão com pivô central no município de Dom Pedrito-RS

Abstract

Water is a public good available in the form of renewable environment, scarce and essential for the survival of living beings. Its use in irrigation was one of the first interventions by man in nature in order to ensure the production of food in times of drought. Irrigation has been shown to be a tool capable of contributing to the increase in production rates while minimizing risks and losses in food production, thereby contributing to the supply of world demand for food. Irrigated production has a role of great social, environmental and economic for our country, state and county in this context water resources are directly linked to food production, because the agricultural sector is cited as one of the largest water use activities with that the management of water resources has an important role in streamlining this consumption. This paper presents an approach to the management of water resources and decision making developed by irrigation farmers spray with central pivot of the city of Dom Pedrito, RS. The objective was to seek to identify which factors influence the management and decision making of producers in the management of water resources. To understand more about the topic of this work have been consulted in the literature, some considerations on the subject, as the aspects that conceptualize water resources, which the importance of managing these resources, legal aspects in the use of water resources, among other aspects considered essential to the theme of the basement. To identify aspects applied in water management and decision-making, interviews were conducted by applying a questionnaire with four producers who carried out the environmental licensing through the Department of the Municipal Environment (DEMA). After the interpretation of interviews, results showed that producers have a gap to fill in regard to the application of water management and use in a rational way, and the producers are not leading to irrigation in a sustainable way and should seek information and apply the techniques available, allowing the industry to achieve high production rates with the use of irrigation rationally in the use of water resources through the application of a non efficient management there is the commitment of the same for future generations.