Informalidade e Redes Sociais: Famílias Produtoras de Cachaça do Município de Rio Pomba MG

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Maria Angélica Alves da Silva e
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4172
• topic: Extensão Rural; Pequenos produtores; Produção e Comercialização; Informalidade; Extension; Small producers; Production and Marketing; Informality; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::EXTENSAO RURAL

The Brazilian rural context is the major producer of cachaça. However, 85% of producers work on informality and illegality, the interdependencies of production, social networking and marketing of cachaça by the actors and producers familiar. The Brazilian reality shows that producers earn income below the middlemen of cachaça, mainly due to lack of information on the domestic and foreign market, not add value to the product, the lack of state incentives and the lack of strength of social networks that exist this form of agricultural production. Thus, the objective was to identify and analyze the formal and informal social networks of farmers through: work processes used in the production of rum; tradition; income generation; interface / supervisory bodies interference-certifiers, and the role of extension in these relations. This work, which was seen as the producers of cachaça family in the city Rio Pomba is the presence of informality with regard to production - no contracts or divisions of work, but a partnership between families and neighbors. One can consider other parameters informality when it is based on the concept of reciprocity. However, families of producing cachaça Rio Pomba remain in informal form of crop planting and driving; issues of hygiene required by sanitary surveillance in inadequate allocation of waste and waste from this activity (bagasse and vinasse), among others . Still, families are unanimous that it is a way of continuing the activity, since the certification and registration with the bodies have legitimized complex procedures and records and taxes are incompatible with their realities of small producers. Despite the existence of social networking through the contacts close and distant actors interviewed, it was observed that are disjointed and turn exclusively for their productions, distributions and expand their markets. Thus, do not realize the importance of partnerships with other producers, although understand that the production of rum is an excellent opportunity to generate income. So, prioritize and maintain the tradition in production and marketing systems, demonstrate risk aversion and point out the difficulties of access to new technologies, protecting the identity of the family cachaça production and where it is produced.