O uso do agrotóxico na agricultura familiar: saúde do trabalhador rural no Município de Uberlândia (MG)

Abstract

Intoxication of rural workers by the handling and application of agricultural pesticides, especially family farming, has become one of the most serious public health problems in Brazil. In this context, this study aimed to investigate the health impacts of rural workers and their families due to the intensive use of pesticides, with the case of family farmers in the municipality of Uberlândia - MG. For this purpose, bibliographic research was carried out pertinent to the theme, collection of secondary data available on poisoning by pesticides in government agencies, consultation on pertinent environmental and sanitary legislation, application of the technical file for survey on the use of chemicals in the rural area, registry of the pesticides used more, the areas that use the most and in which crops, data collection on the number of people who became ill due to the use of the pesticide through the blood test in the rural communities of the region of Terra Branca, Rio das Pedras, Olhos d ' water and Marimbondo, agrarian areas of the Municipality of Uberlândia / MG. The analysis of the material produced indicated that the lack of technical information from farmers on the chemical components present in pesticides and the consequences of the use of these products on human health as well as the lack of training for the proper use of pesticides constitute the central elements of the contamination of families. The blood tests carried out, as well as the survey of the symptoms of diseases point to the occurrence of a process of contamination by slow and continuous pesticides of the workers of the communities investigated.