ANCIENT TECHNOLOGIES OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE
The experience of few years going along with small farmers in the Rio de Janeiro state demonstrated they are increasingly seduced by the high demand of organics` market. This fact together with rising costs of production and with a crop management technology not always very accesible are causing difficulties and farmers migration from the work in the crop and soil manegement at the farm to a middle-man trade activity what could eventually bring risks to food and nutritional sovereignt of the small farmers families and to traceability of organic products they trade. In a search for a solution allowing them to produce again crops with high productivity and quality we propose, in a systemic perspective, develop simple, efficient and low cost techniques (ancestral technology) for soil re-fertilization such as, fermented fertilizers, biofertilizers with local recycled input which efficiency will be tested in corn (Zea mays L.) native variety called Catingueiro . The developpement of ancestral technology will be done into agroecologiccal property in Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil and shared with local small farmers through opened rural practical workshops.
The experience of few years going along with small farmers in the Rio de Janeiro state demonstrated they are increasingly seduced by the high demand of organics` market. This fact together with rising costs of production and with a crop management technology not always very accesible are causing difficulties and farmers migration from the work in the crop and soil manegement at the farm to a middle-man trade activity what could eventually bring risks to food and nutritional sovereignt of the small farmers families and to traceability of organic products they trade. In a search for a solution allowing them to produce again crops with high productivity and quality we propose, in a systemic perspective, develop simple, efficient and low cost techniques (ancestral technology) for soil re-fertilization such as, fermented fertilizers, biofertilizers with local recycled input which efficiency will be tested in corn (Zea mays L.) native variety called Catingueiro . The developpement of ancestral technology will be done into agroecologiccal property in Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil and shared with local small farmers through opened rural practical workshops.