An?lise da produ??o integrada agropecu?ria e a contribui??o dos processos de transfer?ncia de tecnologia para o seu desenvolvimento

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Gisele Lara de
• Orientador(a): Costa, Stella Regina Reis da
• Banca de defesa: Santos, Andr? Luis de Sousa , Barbosa, Maria Ivone Martins Jacintho , Barbosa, Ana Lucia dos Santos , Assis, Gilberto Carlos Cerqueira Mascarenhas , Santos, Lucielen Oliveira dos
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Ci?ncia e Tecnologia de Alimentos
• Departamento: Instituto de Tecnologia
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Frutas; Certifica??o; Inova??o
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Fruits; Certification; Innovation
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: Ci?ncia e Tecnologia de Alimentos
• Link de acesso: https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/jspui/5522

The tendencies of the world food market are oriented by an important growth in the consumption of natural products such as fruits and vegetables, leading to an equally significant increase in the prices and in the number of basic quality parameters, of which those concerning safe food receive a special emphasis. Brazil is the third biggest fruit producer in the world, which makes fruit growing such an important activity for this country. However, in the order for this activity to develop, environmental and social requirements, as well as requirements on quality set up by the food market must be observed. In this context, Agricultural and Livestock Integrated Production (PI Brazil) is a system which uses technologies that allow an effective control of the production system. It was adopted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply as a national protocol of certification for farming products. Nevertheless, in a country as big as Brazil, technology transfer processes represent not only a powerful work tool in the expansion of practices and technologies available for integrated production, but also a great challenge to overcome. In this sense, the objective of this research was to point out the aspects that contribute to the raise in the number of farmers joining this Program, through the identification of the factors that encouraged them the most to adhere to the PI Brazil certification; the way they act, how they articulate key players involved in the Program, and the contribution of technology transfer processes to its development. In order to reach these goals, a holistic and descriptive case study was conducted, whose objects of study were the cases regarding apple and grape productions in Brazil. Semi-structured interviews were applied to the main players involved in the integrated production in Brazil and in France, and a desk research was also carried out. All data collected were analyzed under a qualitative perspective, through benchmarking and explanation construction techniques. At the end of the research it can be conclude that the current structure available for technology transfer processes in agriculture does not constitute a tool facilitating the PI Brazil expansion. In order for the Program to advance, it?s necessary that the Ministry of Agriculture plays a more democratic and proactive role in the modernization of the productive apparatus, boosting relations with all stakeholders through new partnership mechanisms, and also, that it creates specific subsidies targeting integrated production, and new communication channels for the exchange of information between all agents involved. The Ministry should also encourage the professionalization of the sector and promote improvements in the agrochemical segment, in training plans, in the current structure for technology transfer and in the dissemination of the Program. The data of this research can be used to provide feedback into the national integrated production system and also in the adoption of guidelines and management actions that allow the creation of new paths for the promoting of the adhesion of farmers to the PI Brazil program.