Formas de armazenamento de hortifrutis regionais em tefé am: uma leitura da biologia social

Abstract

This study aimed at to identify and to describe the storage forms and stockpiling, of regional hortifrútis in the municipal district of Tefé. So soon, it was verified that the lack of investments (financial on the part of the administration) in the infrastructure of these establishments they interfere in the conservation, of the fruits and several green vegetables, that you/they enter and they leave the municipal district, as well as they are directly related with the quality of life of the population tefeense. This analysis is treated of a qualitative study whose reports were obtained through interviews addressed the proprietors and employees of the establishments of this municipal district, in the month of October of 2012. The main problem detected in the hortifruticultura of that area is the lack of appropriate conditions of storage, because once the vegetables begin to ripen, his/her durability is short. In this context, the section above mentioned, it faces current problems among others of the structure absence, of the bad information, of the high costs of the transport, of the cooling and above all maintenance. With of the analysis of the observed data was possible to reach the conclusion that the conditions of the quality of the fruits depend a lot in the stockpiling ways, storage and of the place where you/they are marketed such as: free market, supported, box, stores of the I spill of the fair, supermarket, etc.