Programa Estadual de Agroindústria Familiar (PEAF/RS): análise da implementação a partir de um estudo de caso no município de São Luiz Gonzaga – RS

Abstract

The general objective of this research is to carry out an analysis of the implementation of the State Program of Family Agroindustry in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, from a case study in the municipality of São Luiz Gonzaga. The referred to program has as its focus the development of family agroindustries to which are offered a series of actions which go from help in the process of sanitary, environmental, fiscal and tributary legalization, and in the commercialization, amongst others. This program, whose execution the Secretary of Rural, Fishing and Cooperativism Development(SDR/RS) is in charge of, is implemented by Emater since the year of 2012 and constitutes as an important public policy directed to the sector, having been registered since its creation 2.928 family agroindustries and included another 1.039. Registration is the first step into the program, accessible to all those who fit as a public beneficiary, thus, being included requires the fulfillment of some requirements, amongst which, the formalization of the establishment, the sanitary, environmental, tributary and fiscal legalization, that inserts in the context of implementation of other institutions. Considering these factors, the process of analysis per se has as its base the theoretic framework of policy analysis for the study of the implementation stage of public policies. Therefore, seeking to reach the general objective, the specific objectives traced consisted in identifying the institutions involved in the phase of implementation, perceive the responsibilities of each one in this process and determine if deficits exist in the implementation of PEAF/RS in the referred municipality. Lastly the analysis of all these variables, result of the case study, allowed them to conclude that there were no deficits of implementation, yet it cannot be considered that there will be a perfect implementation due to some factors that can be resolved with the adoption of a municipal policy directed at Family agroindustries, the strengthening of the structure of implementation, composed of various institutions that implement the program, these actions will bring as chief beneficiary the incentive to the farmers not only in registering themselves in PEAF/RS but also in following the program heading to the legalization and consequently the inclusion.