The research was done with the objective of identifying and analysing the needs, demands
and uses of information from partner farmers of the research project, “Adaptation and
participative validity of an area preparation without burning in northern Pará”, developed in
the cities of Igarapé-Açu and Marapanim, by Embrapa, in the communication process and
information for action. Based on interviews and observations, it was outlined the prolife of
partner farmers and opinion makers and identified their demands of information, being the
most significative ones related to agriculture (cultivation, deseases, pests,
financing/agricultural credit), followed by information on Education, Social Security, Law etc.
The concept of information was constructed from the interviewd perceptions and were
studied, still, participative actions developed by the project, means of mass communication of
wider audience; besides support and information barriers. Among the social and institutional
actors acting in the process, there is strong participation of relatives neighboring farmers, as
a source of information for the communities and, among the several institutions, and
Embrapa. Through the application of the technique of the critical incident the search of more
recent information was analyzed, when agriculturist partners had needed information to
develop their activities, if they had gotten it or not, and what this caused in their activities in
familiar agriculture and their lives.
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