Percepção de risco por exposição aos agrotóxicos entre trabalhadores rurais dos munícipios de Goiânia, Trindade e Palmeiras de Goiás

Abstract

The present work has as principle to raise criticism about the use of pesticides by these producers, and to discuss what risks and impacts they have caused. The research originated from the problematic of the need to investigate the under-notifications and the contaminations caused in the rural producers, as well as to discuss how the poison or pesticides are based by the Brazilian legislation and to show the perceptions, risks and exposure. The objective is to analyze the perception of risk and exposure to pesticides in the territory in which the workers are inserted. Thus, a descriptive-exploratory field survey with a qualitative approach was carried out among rural workers in the cities of Goiânia, Trindade and Palmeiras of Goiás. Data were collected through a structured road map answered by 11 rural workers. Responses and data were analyzed according to the characteristics of the variables and their distributions. The instruments used had their data recorded to understand the perception of environmental quality / environmental risks. According to the results presented, the farmers clearly demonstrate that they are aware of the possibility of intoxication, as well as the consequences of the daily exposure of these products, since the workers have been able to make clear connections. Thus, the need for the implementation of public policies to guarantee the health of rural workers, providing intensive and quality technical assistance in the region surveyed; besides the agricultural incentive to the practices of planting of base agroecológica thus reducing sustainable and the environmental, social and economic vulnerability among the population of the field.