Da fronteira agrícola à agroindustrialização: o caso de São João do Oeste

Abstract

This dissertation objectives to understand the changes that had occurred in the daily of agriculturists inserted in the integration system with the implantation of the agroindustrial complexes in the Catarinense s extreme west region. The purpose of this study is the phenomenon of agroindustrialization and its impacts on the agricultural producers integrated to the agroindustrial complex of aviculture and the rural producers integrated to the complex agroindustrial of pig s farmers, residents in the twelve communities of the São João do Oeste city, Santa Catarina. The central objective of the work is to understand the process of loss of the decision power on the direction of the properties of integrated agricultures. The work will detach also, the sociocultural transformations resulting from the system integration. The method selected for the work was the study of multiple cases, including contractual documentary analysis and bibliographic research. The results were grouped into six parts: an introduction is the first part, after that, to initiate the development, it is detached and characterized the settling of the region with the formation of homogeneous groups under ethnic conceptions and governed by religious certainties; the following refers to the rupture caused by the transition of the settling for the modernization of the productive process through investments and external financings; in the fourth part the the main features of the system integration are addressed, how it had been installed in the region and the loss, decurrent of the implanted system and of the power of decision of agriculturists, in the fifth part the characteristics of the São João do Oeste City are presented and the results of the field research, and, summarizing the work, a conclusive synthesis is made. As a result of the research and as highlighted in the course of the dissertation, the subject of the rupture is evidenced, in several aspects, in the life of the studied agriculturists: rupture in the property s organization, rupture in the family structure and the rupture in the relation of the agriculturists with the community.