A tecnologia Mandala frente a realidade rural do Assentamento Mulungu

Abstract

An alternative to a better utilization of semiarid potentialities is the family farming. The Rural Settlements for Agrarian Reform have the so called agro-ecological transition, a path to sustainable. It is in this context that the Mulungu municipality of Tururu / CE. The settlement is characterized by having its agricultural production of agroecological basis with the use of Mandala technology. This work was developed within the Agrarian Residence Program (PRA), which was sold to the Agricultural Sciences Federal University of Ceará (UFC), with the objective of describing the organization of settlement by zoning; the history of the Settlement and describe the mode of work developed in the Mandalas of the Mulungu settlement. For this it was adopted the Analysis-Diagnosis of Agrarian Systems. From an in-depth study of the Settlement Mulungu was carried out the zoning and study of historical evolution. Since at the time Chapelão Farm was until the present day the region did not stop producing and was an important place for the implementation of agricultural development projects, as a result of social and political organization of the population. Mandalas were important because they brought improvements for families because the actions envisaged improved the quantity of production, sales and the generation of jobs and income, improving the quality of life and the citizenship.