Entre sabores e papelada: dinâmicas de regularização de empreendimentos de agroindústrias familiares rurais e urbanas no município de Santa Maria/RS.

Abstract

This dissertation deals with the theme of family agro-industries, which are understood as activities of processing raw materials produced by families of family farmers, who produce products such as sausages, dairy products and food processing, aiming at adding value to the products produced, through generation of work and income. In this work, the objective was to identify the dynamics of regularization of rural and urban family agroindustry enterprises in the municipality of Santa Maria. Considering the difficulties that farmers report in obtaining the seal of the Municipal Inspection Service (SIM) to do so, we sought to answer the following questions: What are the instances covered to formalize the enterprises? What are the limitations and conflicts encountered by entrepreneurs of family agribusinesses during this regularization process? What do the actors (technicians and entrepreneurs) sayabout thechallenges encountered? Based on a qualitative methodology, interviews were carried out with the agents of the Municipal Inspection Service, Department of Rural Development, of EMATER and four entrepreneurs of rural and urban family agro-industries in the municipality were interviewed, where we sought to identify the obstacles and difficulties that these entrepreneurs find in the regularization of agroindustry. The research points out that theSantaMaria process includes a set of steps that go through several institutions of the municipal government that not all of them dialogue with each other and therefore entrepreneurs have difficulties in seeking information. The biggest difficulties refer to steps 3 which correspond to Blueprints and Memorials, step 4 which corresponds to Environmental Licensing and step 5 which deals with the Vehicle Sanitary Permit and documents that RTs, Civil Engineers, Accountants and other professionals need to speed up. Finally, it concludes with the need to rethink a flow that aggregates the sector and carry out an internal training at the cityhall sothat everyone understands and gives more security to producers in starting the process of obtaining the SIM seal.