O progresso a “preço de banana”: análise das inter-relações saúde, trabalho e ambiente no contexto do agronegócio na Chapada do Apodi/Ce

Abstract

The Brazil is the world leader in consumption of agrochemicals and exposed workers are numerous and diversified. The intensive use of agrochemicals has raised the concern of people of various sectors, given the potential risks that these substances brings to the environment andto humans. The study was conducted in Chapada do Apodi upland, location that stands agribusiness in Ceará. The objective was to describe and analyze aspects of interrelationships health, work and environment in the context of agribusiness of banana. It is a descriptive, cross-sectional study, using quantitative and qualitative methodological approach. Studies were carried out of aerial spraying in the region of production processes in two companies of agribusiness, application of se-mistructured questionnaire, focus groups and open interviews. The workers studied are adult-young, predominantly male, with age ranging from 18 to 58 years. Among the interviewees,79.3% stated that they had contact with pesticides/fertilizers and 96.7% thought that the work with the use of fertilizers and pesticides could cause ill health. The results clearly show a situation of vulnerability and a favourable context for the expansion of human and environmental contamination. Therefore, the exposure to pesticides and fertilizers can cause health workers ' grievances of agribusiness of the banana and the environment in the area studied. Is unsustainable paradigm of the safe use of pesticides in analyses of the inter relationships health-work and environment in the context of agribusiness in Chapada do Apodi/CE. Further study need to be madein the region aimed at measuring the impact of agrochemicals in the lives of workers, the environment and the health system as well as to assist in the construction of public policies regarding this subject matter neverbecause a reality in all its complexity is all understood but this does not authorize us to defer to preventive action because there are already sufficient evidence to assertresults.