ENVIRONMENTAL AND MANAGEMENT CONDITIONS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SPONTANEOUS AND TRADITIONAL FOOD SPECIES IN PARATY-RJ
Spontaneous plants; urban agriculture; food safety; agroecology.
Spontaneous food plants are those that are born even without cultivation in vegetable gardens, gardens, fields or even among sidewalk concrete. Some plants are native, but many were brought along with commercial plants introduced in Brazil and became naturalized. These plants, besides having food potential, also have great medicinal value and are traditionally used in many regions of Brazil. Because they are generalist species they are able to thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions and are therefore easy to adapt and disseminate. Rescuing the use and fostering the use of these plant species in order to contribute to food security and sovereignty, and to awaken knowledge about traditional wild spontaneous agricultural diversity, is of very significant importance. With the intention of recognizing the importance of these plants, the present work carried out a survey of the main emerged and cultivated plants, in an urban yard area of 180 m2. The survey was conducted based on the identification of the species that appear in this backyard space, where the various factors that qualified these species as major contributors of family subsistence and promoters of food security and sovereignty were observed. With the characterization of these plants, it was also possible to identify their ecological benefits and their favoring in the emergence environment. The food wild biodiversity presents us with numerous species that can feed us, which guarantees us autonomy and nutritional quality. The lack of interest in this knowledge is the result of a way of life encouraged by globalization, which generated the preferential search for industrialized foods. In order to promote and enhance these plants, this work conducted a fertilization experiment with Lactuca serriola, identified in the survey, with favorable characteristics of adaptation, propagation, productivity and food potential. The experiment was carried out in the same area as the species survey, and the development of Lactuca serriola in its spontaneous emergence was monitored. (20) Randomly emerged plants were mapped within the 180m² area, from August 2018 to May 2109. For the evaluation of responses on their development and productivity, two treatments were used in this experiment, (10) plants received fertilization. organic and (10) plants did not receive. Soil analyzes of the area and the fertilizer used were made. The observed responses show difference only in the number of leaves, not being observed significant differences in the other observed characteristics.