Percepção da educação ambiental na preservação do solo e qualidade ambiental em algumas fazendas do distrito São João da Serra Negra - Patrocínio, Minas Gerais

Abstract

This course conclusion work aims to analyze the perception of some rural producers in the district of São João da Serra Negra, Minas Gerais, regarding environmental education focused mainly on soil preservation and environmental quality, essential factors for agriculture. The research was conducted with fifteen small producers through the application of a questionnaire containing twenty questions of subjects related to the soil and the environment. In general, the results show that some interviewees were better educated than others throughout their experiences and that the path to be traveled to awareness in the field is still long. It is noticed that there is still a great lack of accessibility to the important information needed for sustainable land use, which reflects that not all interviewees had access to environmental education or are aware that the impacts generated in the environment today will negatively affect future generations. Thus, it was concluded that environmental education can be seen as an extremely necessary tool for soil preservation and environmental quality to be improved and this should be increasingly introduced into the field.