GIS applied to agriclimatological zoning and agrotoxin residue monitoring in tomatoes: A case study in Espírito Santo state, Brazil

Gleissy Mary Amaral Dino Alves dos Santos; Alexandre Rosa Dos Santos; Luciano José Quintão Teixeira; Sérgio Henriques Saraiva; Deivid França Freitas; Olavo dos Santos Pereira Jr; Carlos Antonio Alvares Soares Ribeiro; Alexandre Simões Lorenzon; Fernando Coelho Eugenio; Antônio Augusto Neves; Maria Eliana Lopes Ribeiro de Queiroz; Rodrigo Scherer

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.10.040

GIS applied to agriclimatological zoning and agrotoxin residue monitoring in tomatoes: A case study in Espírito Santo state, Brazil

J Environ Manage. 2016 Jan 15:166:429-39. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.10.040. Epub 2015 Nov 10.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Federal University of Viçosa/UFV, PostGraduate Programme in Agrochemistry, Av. Peter Henry Rolfs; s/n, 36570-000, Viçosa, MG, Brazil. Electronic address: gleissym@yahoo.com.br.
² Federal University of Espírito Santo/UFES, Department of Rural Engineering, Alto Universitário; s/n, 29500-000, Alegre, ES, Brazil. Electronic address: alexandre.santos@pq.cnpq.br.
³ Federal University of Espírito Santo/UFES, Department of Food Engineering, Alto Universitário, s/n, 29500-000, Alegre, ES, Brazil. Electronic address: luqteixeira@yahoo.com.br.
⁴ Federal University of Espírito Santo/UFES, Department of Food Engineering, Alto Universitário, s/n, 29500-000, Alegre, ES, Brazil. Electronic address: sergiohsaraiva@gmail.com.
⁵ Federal University of Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro/UENF, PostGraduate Programme in Biosciences and Biotechnology, Av. Alberto Lamego, Parque Califórnia, 2000, 29500-000, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil. Electronic address: dfnaweb@gmail.com.
⁶ Federal University of Juiz de Fora/UFJF, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Av. Presidente Costa e Silva, São Pedro, 3000, 36037-000, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil. Electronic address: olavo.pereira@ufjf.edu.br.
⁷ Federal University of Viçosa/UFV, Department of Forest Engineering, Av. Peter Henry Rolfs, s/n 36570-000, Viçosa, MG, Brazil. Electronic address: cribeiro@ufv.br.
⁸ Federal University of Viçosa/UFV, Department of Forest Engineering, Av. Peter Henry Rolfs, s/n 36570-000, Viçosa, MG, Brazil. Electronic address: alelorenzon@yahoo.com.br.
⁹ Federal University of Espírito Santo/UFES, PostGraduate Programme in Forest Sciences, Av. Governador Lindemberg; 316, 29550-000, Jerônimo Monteiro, ES, Brazil. Electronic address: coelho.fernando@yahoo.com.br.
¹⁰ Federal University of Viçosa/UFV, PostGraduate Programme in Agrochemistry, Av. Peter Henry Rolfs; s/n, 36570-000, Viçosa, MG, Brazil. Electronic address: aneves@ufv.br.
¹¹ Federal University of Viçosa/UFV, PostGraduate Programme in Agrochemistry, Av. Peter Henry Rolfs; s/n, 36570-000, Viçosa, MG, Brazil. Electronic address: meliana@ufv.br.
¹² University of Vila Velha/UVV, Department of Natural Products, Av. Comissário José Dantas de Melo; Boa Vista, 21, 29102-920, Vila Velha, ES, Brazil. Electronic address: rodrigo.scherer@uvv.br.

PMID: 26555099
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.10.040

Abstract

Searches related to global warming have provided important insights into the response of terrestrial ecosystems, but few have examined the impacts on agricultural crops, particularly those associated with the monitoring of agrotoxin residues. In this context, the agriclimatological zoning is an important tool in the planning and consolidation of crops and should be considered in any initiative that involves such planning. This tool is particularly important in the analysis of agrotoxin residues and may be applied by the Program Analysis of Agrotoxin Residues in Food (PARA) created by the National Health Vigilance Agency of Brazil (ANVISA), which enables greater food security and contributes to the improvement of human health. The aim of this study was to elaborate the current and future agriclimatological zoning for the tomato crop, relating it with the monitoring of samples collected by PARA in Espírito Santo State, Brazil. The results indicate that a temperature increase of 5 °C creates a decrease in apt areas from 37.3% to 4.3%, for a total reduction of 33 percentage points (-88.5%). It is noted that of the 41 producing municipalities, only 26 have apt areas greater than 50%, highlighting the municipalities with apt areas greater than 90%, represented by Mantenópolis (100%), Guaçuí (98.5%), São José do Calçado (97.8%), Irupi (94.4%), Santa Teresa (92.3%), and Marechal Floriano (91.4%). The veracity of agriclimatological zoning is proved by a Kendall rank correlation coefficient of 0.876, indicating that the distribution of the variables of apt areas and productivity are similar at the significance level of 0.05 with a confidence interval 95%. After validation of the agriclimatological zoning for the tomato crop, it is recommended that the PARA should monitor 36 municipalities rather than the current 18, representing an increase of 100%. The methodology can be adjusted to agricultural crops of other countries.

Keywords: Geotechnology; Global warming; Health; Multiresidue analysis.

MeSH terms

Brazil
Crops, Agricultural*
Ecosystem
Environmental Monitoring
Food Analysis / methods
Food Contamination / analysis*
Geographic Information Systems*
Global Warming
Solanum lycopersicum*