Estudo dos potenciais da cadeia produtiva da erva-mate como fator de desenvolvimento regional sustentável do Médio Alto Uruguai do Rio Grande do Sul.

Abstract

The present study originated from the following question: The technological potential structural, market and environment of the paraguay tea chain productive, can be considerated factor of local development defensible of Médio Alto Uruguai? The general objective to characterize the productive chain of paraguay tea through the potentials mentioned a hove, in order to verify and analyze itself as a factor of a local defensible developed thorough a bibliographical revision, summed to a descriptive research had developed research involving producers, industries and customer, like as IBGE, EMATER, and the municipalities of CODEMAU, included. The Paraguay tea is responsible by one of the most long and productive economics cycles of the south Brazil history. The natural areas of occurrence of paraguay tea are found in the states of south region (RS, SC, PR0, and more in the Mato Grosso do Sul state. The fruitful chain of paraguay tea has an industrial structure that can benefit all region production of paraguay tea, is one of the few industrialized and commercialized products in the proper Médio Alto Uruguai region. The Paraguay tea is a complementary productive activity in the agricultural properties that in this majority are little a medium properties. It is a perennial plant resisting to the attacks of calamity don’t nailing the use of agro toxics, and adaptable in any type of soil and earthly, being an excellent alternative to regeneration and conservation of soils, contributing with the biodiversity of the culture medium where it he insert. The technological aspects of the paraguay tea productive are represent in this study by the production techniques, as extractives like the cultivation; and in the final product, that has a market of guarantee in the south states of Brazil, and specially in Rio Grande do Sul and a potential to be overcome in the southeast states, west center and North because the great immigration of southern to these regions that took the custom of to drink of MERCOSUL, which prove that this market com be more explored, having in view that the exports don’t reach of great sizes. The environment institutional and organizational of the productive chain of paraguay tea is clearly defined, inciting by the ‘insumos’ furnishers to the farmers till to the final users with great structural potential of more entrance in this sector, enriching even mores the structure of this productive chain in the moment of the industrialization of new products founded in paraguay tea the productive chain of paraguay tea contributes to the regional development defensible, because boards the dimensions: social, economic, ecological, spatial and cultural, generating income and tax that return in development social-economic, being there fore, a factor of real importance to the studied region.