Cultivo de um banco de proteína para agricultura familiar na comunidade do Amaragi – Lagoa Seca – PB

Protein bank is defined as an area cultivated with legumes and that has the main purpose of storing food and supplying protein needs of the herd during the period of drought, so it must be constituted by plants that present resistance to such phenomenon. A research was carried out in the Amaragi Community, located in the rural area of ​​Lagoa Seca - PB, in partnership with Campus II of the UEPB, where an action was organized in DRP (Rural Participative Diagnosis), educational activities were developed based on Freireana methodology, aiming at the union between popular and academic knowledge. Species were implanted as gliricidia, pigeon pea, bean-fava, mucuna-preto consorciado with maize and sunflower. Due to the climatic factors, the project did not obtain the expected results, however it aims to continue the actions, aiming the implantation of new varieties of pigeon pea, in order to meet the goals of a protein bank for animal feed.