The family agroindustries in the context of the colonial agrarian system in Southern Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Etges, Virginia Elisabeta
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Karnopp, Erica
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Redes (Santa Cruz do Sul. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/redes/article/view/14255
• topic: Território. Sistema agrário colonial. Agroindústria familiar. Cultivo do tabaco. Dependência. Autonomia.; Territory. Colonial agrarian system. Family agroindustries. Tobacco growing. Dependency. Autonomy.; Territorio. Sistema agrario colonial. Agroindustria familiar. Cultivo de tabaco. Dependência. Autonomia.

The configuration of rural territory in southern Brazil has been strongly influenced by European immigration throughout the 19th century. The colonial agricultural system, resulting from this process, is characterized by the small rural property, organized around family work, focused on the production for subsistence and commercialization of surplus production. The data here presented is a result of a research that analyzes the constitution process and functioning of family agroindustries and its implications on the dynamic of territorial organization in the Vale do Rio Pardo - RS region. Through this investigation, one of analytical-explicative nature, we sought to understand the interaction of endogenous (horizontalities) and exogenous (verticalities) factors in territory, since the region is hegemonized by the large transnational complexes of the tobacco industry, which use the territory in a selective way, making producers dependent on their production and marketing strategies The data collected show difficulties in the formalization of agroindustries because of legal requirements. From all agroindustries units identified in the region, approximately 40% are formal and 60% are in the process of formalization or are informal, a condition that limits the access to the formal market to commercialize the production.