Aceitabilidade da palma miúda (Nopalea cochenillifera) em receita regional de cuscuz no Curimataú paraibano

Abstract

The current agricultural model and its technological package provided a productive increase of several crops, however, it encouraged and stimulated the excessive use of agrochemicals worldwide, causing severe damage not only to the environment, but also influencing an entire food chain, family farming. Agroecology emerges to disseminate and re-learn ways linked to environmentally sustainable agriculture, as well as culturally and socially. Food crops require innovations from their convivial environments, which require the use of new technologies, such as the use of cacti in human food, such as palm. It is a crop resistant and adaptable to semi-arid climate, as well as nutritionally rich; making it possible in the diverse utilities, as typical recipes of the region, thus proposing the valorization of the xerophytic plants and adding a nutritional value and food security to all the communities. This research was developed during 6 months, between three communities and settlements in the cities of Picuí and Cuité, both in the state of Paraiba. Workshops were held in each community, exploring the multiple uses of forage palm within family agriculture, supporting their potentialities within rural and social development. Following a participatory methodology among all the participants, where at the end of this research, the use of forage palm within the local agriculture can be evaluated, and mainly to certify at the end of the application of the questionnaires the use and acceptance of the same in regional recipes, and its possible acceptance in the market.