Análise da incorporação tecnológica na agroindústria familiar no município de Crissiumal-RS

Abstract

The present study is about an analysis of technological incorporation into family agribusiness, having as the main objective to understand how the incorporation of technologies in family agribusiness occurs in the town of Crissiumal-RS and its results in terms of maintenance of the family agriculture business. It is about a theoretical and empiric piece of work that utilized the exploratory-descriptive method. The qualitative research used the technique of face-to-face interviews, based on scripts which were previously structured and applied in institutions that support family agribusiness in this town, as well as in most productive units which form agribusiness in Crissiumal. As a result, it is important to say that the adopted innovations can be considered relatively simple regarding technology, for example, the pulping machine and the sugarcane grinder, and they cause important impact on the family agribusiness activity in the studied town. Among these, it is important to highlight the maintenance or growth of the agro industry business, through manufacturing products with greater added value, the conquest of new markets, the increase in the farmers’ income and the maintenance of family jobs, of third parties or even by creating new jobs. It was also possible to identify the participation of institutions, with Cooper Fonte Nova standing out, the tacit knowledge of the farmer and obtaining public financial resources as relevant factors in the process of technological changes in this productive activity. It indicates, therefore, the relevance of external stimuli to the production unit for the technological incorporation, as well as the farmer’s proactivity in adopting innovations.