Etnobotânica da mandioca e os aspectos socioeconômicos e da agrobiodiversidade na comunidade tradicional Rios do Couros, Cuiabá, MT

Abstract

The region around Cuiaba has more than ten thousand farmers, including tradicional farmers supporters of a rich collection of landraces of cassava. This study characterized the socioeconomic profile, cassava etnobotany and agrobiodiversity of traditional community of Rio dos Couros, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso State. To this were applied three questionnaires semistructured. Used Stata 13 program for analysis of socieconomic profile data, and other data descriptive interpretations. All respondents called themselves farmers, regardless of gender, with 81% men and 18% women, mean age 50 years. All units reside farmers (grandparents) along with their grandchildren. Son to 90% of cases live and work in Cuiabá. Retirement and social programs are the main source of family income. The commercialization of cassava, mainly for the production of flour, is complementary to income. The agrobiodiversity were found 76 species, 13 for timber, 49 food and 14 medicinal. In the gardens, prevailed tubers. The cassava, grown in the fields, had 29 landraces, some kept for over 20 years. Rio dos Couros holds a rich collection of landraces of cassava, but that is the eminence of genetic erosion, because this activity threatened because there are no successors to the activity.