| Summary: | Pesticides integrate the chemically dependent prevailing model in brazilian agriculture, and
it is part of the complex capitalist totality in which agrochemical mega-corporations enjoy enormous
centrality. The following lines have as objective to analyse the contradictions underlying dependent
agriculture of pesticide in the Semiarid of Alagoas, providing a reflective input from data and information
of outstanding relevance. The phenomenon of pesticides materializes in an unequal manner in the
Semiarid of Alagoas and has resulted in acute socioenvironmental contradictions. The research was able
to identify a significant incidence of human intoxication and risks of water and soil contamination with
the chemical ingredients used in the plantations. In addition, it was found the subjection of income from
peasant land to the capital by means of the regular purchase/sale of various pesticides. In the text are
transmitted primary and secondary data collected throughout the investigation, through field visits to
some of the communities situated on the banks of the Sertão Channel and the Moxotó river, Mesoregion
of Sertão, western portion of the Semiarid, and collected through consultations with several state
agencies
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