A política estadual de apoio às agroindústrias familiares de pequeno porte de processamento artesanal na Região da Quarta Colônia de Imigração do RS.

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze, from the perspective of farmers, the effectiveness of the State Policy on Family Agriculture Industry in the Region of the Fourth Colony of Italian Immigration RS, from the fact that despite the PEAF have intentions to encourage benefit and formalize this segment, only 16% family structure of agribusinesses joined the Law on the mentioned region. In this sense, he sought to answer: What is the perception of family farmers on the effectiveness of the State Family Policy Agribusiness as the formalization of family farms of small handcrafted working in the Region of the Fourth Colony of Italian Immigration in RS? The specific objectives focused on: a) identify the variables that constitute the modus operandi of the family farms of small craft processing, in the analyzed region; b) analyze the effectiveness of PEAF by its precepts, goals, laws and decrees that set relating to each variable identified in the research and c) provide, through research, information contributing to rural regional development with regard to survival the family farms of small craft processing. The research was justification the importance for regional and state development of the family structure of agribusinesses based on Census of Agriculture data (2006). For data collection was used a semi-structured interview taking as a basis the three categories of analysis proposed by the Theory of Strategy As Whittington Practice (2006), applied for accessibility in twenty artisan food processing units (eighteen informal and two formal) characterized as family farms of small craft processing, defined by Article 2, Item I (PEAF Law 13,921, of January 17, 2012), processing artisanal foods as starches, meats, dairy products, juices and drinks . The application of Bardin Content Analysis technique (1977), enabled us to identify and analyze the variables that make up the modus operandi of these agribusinesses, which are members of the agricultural industry, origin of agribusiness, management, technical expertise, quality difficulties, facilities, competition, perspectives, alternative actions, market knowledge, support institutions, legal requirements of environmental issues, source of raw materials, product mix, production partnerships and sales, production and sales projection and permanence of agribusiness in the activity . We conclude that the PEAF efforts to formalize the family farms of small craft processing size in the region of the Fourth Colony of Italian Immigration RS, are far from knowledge of these are of a complex understanding by farmers and cause fears the same as the transformation of the informal situation for the formal aspects of the origin of agribusiness, the perception of quality of artisan food, inequality surveillance in succession perspective of agribusiness and supporting institutions because the farmers understand that such a policy is disjointed, not fully known and understood by the technicians of the Municipal EMATER's that should promote the process of formalizing / legalization of the public to which the PEAF intended.