A all the colleagues of the course of licenciatura in education of Biology, for the orientation, friendship and fellowship throughout acadmica formation. The agricultural producers of Boane that if had made use to participate of this work. to that I could not mention, my deep and warm gratefulness. Summary In the year of 2009 was carried through a research with the objectivo to evaluate the level of knowledge on the manipulation of agrotxicos in the agricultural sector of the district of Boane. The same one, had place in two associations of agriculturists having involved 74 interlocutors. During the field work the structuralized interview was posssvel to make the retraction of data with the resource. The escolaridade that predominated was 1 degree of incomplete, corresponding primary education the 36,5% of the population. All the interlocutors had declared to use agrotxicos in its properties for the control and combat to the plagues, however they use them without the due equipment of individual proteco, therefore 29,7% do not possess them and 70,3% use them of incomplete form, being in this way citizens to the risk of exposition for these products.
In general, about 70.3% of the agriculturists they have suffered occupational poisonings during its activities and of these, 92,3% are acute poisonings and 7,7% crnicas poisonings. The low level of escolaridade, the difficulty financial in parallel with the beliefs transmitted through referring degrees of kindred to the use and manuscript of agrotxicos contribute for the inadequate use of same and the consequent poisoning of the agriculturists. In this way, it has weak support for the health, agriculture and for the environment in the region of Boane due to the indiscriminate use of agrotxicos. Words key: agriculturists, poisoning, manipulation of agrotxicos, region of Boane. List of Figures Appears 1: Percentages referring to the degree of escolaridade of the agriculturists …………………. 16 Figure 2: Percentage of the agriculturists how much to the learning of 17 pesticide use ……
