Análise da Web como fonte de informação científica e de interação entre pesquisa e extensão rural

• Autor(a) principal: Estevão, Pricila
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4148
• topic: Extensão rural; Divulgação científica; Mídia digital; World Wide Web; Interatividade; Rural extension; Popular science; Digital media; World Wide Web; Interactivity; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::EXTENSAO RURAL

Information and knowledge are the primary raw materials to the technological and social development in contemporary society. New information and communication technologies play a central role in this picture. The Internet, and especially the Web, is the main responsible for this quiet revolution. Since its introduction in Brazilin the 1990s, the Web has attracted interest as a mean of communication, information and interaction between people, institutions and professionals from various fields, including agricultural extension and agricultural research. In this scenario, this study had the objective to verify how the Web is being appropriated by the public or private technical advice and extension agents that work with dairy farmers in two micro regions of Minas Gerais. The study analyze if the extension agents use Web as a tool to facilitate their activities and to support the process of communication and interaction with research, especially with Embrapa Dairy Cattle and the site as a virtual vehicle to disseminate scientific information. The research methodology is descriptive and exploratory, it was used a person to person semi-structured interview. Among the result a highpoint is the fact that the Web is more used by the extension agent as a channel of scientific-technical, rather than training and interaction environment. Regarding the Embrapa Dairy Cattle, the results show that it is necessary to streng then the relationship with extension agents and that the physical distance is an important barrier to that goal. The improvement of the interaction of researchers and extension agents can bring benefits such as researches that better fit the real needs of different levels of dairy farmers, especially small and family farmers, which are most of the Brazilian farmers. With regard to the Embrapa Dairy site, despite being agreat vehicleto disseminate scientific and technical information today, still needs to be are thought and reinvented to be an effective channel between the Embrapa Dairy Cattle and extension agents, since extension agents consider the information in the Embrapa site as relevant, reliable and updated. The conclusion is that Web offers several possibilities for technical updating as well as for information, communication and training environment, by shortening the distance between source and receiver, minimization of resources, and mutual cooperation for the construction of knowledge in virtual collaborative networks. However, there are still many technical and cultural barriers and limitations before this technology is really incorporated into the daily work of these extension agents. Among them the infrastructure access for connection in the cities and therefore for the Extension Companies; the need to train extension agents to use this tool as well as the incentive to use the technology by the Extension Companies.