APPROPRIATE MANAGEMENT OF ORGANIC SOLID RESIDUES FOR AGRIFOOD AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

A strategy for the sustainability of agriculture is reducing the dependency on external inputs, such as chemical fertilizers, in addition to developing and appropriating adequate technologies. Despite having huge potential resources to produce quality fertilizers from organic solid residues (OSR), urban and rural, these are not exploited because of a lack of adequate management. With the aim of testing and demonstrating this speculation, joint actions of composting and food production were carried out in the period of 2000 to 2013, with participation of the rural and urban population. The processes, results, impacts generated and knowledge attained are described and explained, through the use of action research, with specific procedures such as experimentation and systematization of experiences. The results showed that quality fertilizers are obtained by managing adequately the OSR, urban and rural, with biological procedures (vermicomposting, with appropriate technology and infrastructure, in small and medium scale), which applied to the soil result in higher yields. Society has an excellent opportunity to have quality fertilizers from OSR that it generates daily, for an agriculture that it demands should be organic and sustainable