PERCEPÇÃO POR TRABALHADORES RURAIS DOS MUNICÍPIOS DE RIO VERDE E CATALÃO DE RISCOS AMBIENTAIS E À SAÚDE EM RELAÇÃO A DEFENSIVOS AGRÍCOLAS

Abstract

The consumption of agricultural defensives has increased in Brazil during the past years. The state of Goiás specifically has the fifth position on the consumption of such products, mainly due to the history of agricultural development in the state. It was defined as main goal of this study to verify the rural workers perceptions concerning the use of agricultural defensives, their health care and the environment in which they live in. Therefore, several soy crop workers were interviewed in the city of Rio Verde and tomato crop workers from the city of Catalão. After an analysis according to the Grounded Theory principles some data emerged pointing out that workers have got few informations related to products and they don t realize any actual effects of the defensives either over health care or environment, although they confirm concerns about these two aspects. Besides, it was noticed that not all participants make use of Individual Protective Devices and a many of them do not adopt personal hygiene measures needed to individual protection.