Relato de experiência do assentamento campos, Salgado de São Félix – PB: fortalecendo laços através da história.

Abstract

This work corresponds to an Experience Report in which a characterization of the Campos Settlement, located in the municipality of Salgado de São Felix-PB, will be presented, analyzing the data collected upon request for academic activities of the Agroecology course – PRONERA, at the Federal University from Alagoas. The use of participatory methodologies during the development of the work resulted in self-awareness and, from it, the recognition and appreciation of past struggles, as well as the present challenges that were deemed possible to transform. Consisting of a territory of 3,814,3095ha, this settlement located in the countryside of Paraíba is synonymous with life and resistance, its population brings with it the multiple learning that has been built over the generations and adds to them an entire economic, social, political and cultural activity. Their agricultural practices were developed through work in the field, daily dealing with the land, at a time when machines were not accessible to the majority of the population and agricultural labor was mainly manual and family. This work with the land has agroecological-based characteristics, such as intercropped planting, the low rate of pesticide use, among others.