Diagnóstico sobre a implementação da meliponicultura no distrito do carvão município de Mazagão – Amapá – Brasil

Abstract

Stunted bees are essential for pollination of plant diversity, with which it is possible to increase productivity in the agricultural sector. Currently, bees are in the three sectors of sustainability, they are economically viable, by generating complementary income, socially fair, because it fixes the man in the field giving him financial opportunity and dependence, and environmentally sustainable. Therefore, the research has as objective to know possible causes for the closing of the activities of the meliponicultura in the District of Carvão Mazagão - AP. The main activity is local family farming. The District of Coal is located 14 km from the headquarters of the municipality of Mazagão State of Amapá, on the banks of the Mutuacá River (00 ° 11 '17.24' latitude, 51 ° 21 '11.56' 'longitude), where a descriptive and exploratory research was carried out, with the support of semi-structured interviews. Twenty-one participants from the meliponic culture project, named "Mel da Mata", were interviewed. According to the questionnaire with closed questions, the information was collected and analyzed in a Microsoft Excel / Windows 2008 worksheet. The results indicate that of the 21 interviewed participants, who participated in the meliponicultura project in the Coal District, 10% reported that the closure of the activities was for financial reasons, since they needed resources for the purchase of alternative food (sugar) for bee management. Another 5% said that it was lack of interest of their own, since the project already had an amount of rational boxes with bees captured quite expressive around 100 hives, 5% said that it was lack of technical assistance, since they needed that this relation if at least until the activity brought them a financial return, and the vast majority of respondents reported that they were the three previous options, but 5% still mentioned that they were different causes for the closure of the activity, insect attack, predators of difficult technical control, especially flies. Although the activity of meliponicultura did not work in the locality, the interviewees are interested in participating in new projects aimed at rearing stingless bees in the Coal District