THE AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE PROFESSIONAL IN THE AMAZON CONTEXT: ACADEMIC TRAINING, ACTION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION FROM THE COURSES OF THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF PARÁ
College education. Agrarian courses. Sustainable Rural Development. West of
the State of Pará. Brazil.
Professional training is a subject whose discussion must be recurrent and necessary for the
various areas of higher education. Directing the approach to Agrarian Sciences, in the
Amazon region, there is a need to better explore the subject, in terms of performance, profile
and socio-environmental challenges. Attention is drawn to the Amazon due to its
environmental impacts, which expose a series of political, social and economic problems.
Therefore, talking about the training process for serving the region is thinking about practices
that generate social changes in favor of preserving biodiversity and balancing production
chains. In view of this observation, it was considered necessary to carry out research to
analyze the training of professionals in agricultural sciences from the Federal University of
Western Pará (Ufopa). Descriptive research with a qualitative and quantitative approach will
be applied, whose data will be collected through bibliographic, documentary and semi-
structured questionnaires. Quantitative results will be organized in the Excel® program, using
descriptive statistics; while the qualitative ones (textual structures) will be interpreted based
on Content Analysis. With this framework, it is intended to make the research a guiding
document on aspects of agricultural sciences training in the Amazon, with evidence of the
strategies of each constituent segment of the Agronomy and Zootechnics courses; structuring
professionais profiles, and hanging on to issues of regionalism, agribusiness and
sustainability.