A informalidade na produção de leite no município de Itaqui-RS

Abstract

The Brazilian production of milk increased about 4.5 % increasing from 30.7 billion liters in 2010 to 32.1 billion liters in 2011, which places Brazil in third position in the ranking of the largest milk producers in the world (IBGE, 2012). Along with all of this increase in milk production, they discovered many deceits in the composition. According to Santucci (2013), this year , about 600,000 liters of milk were detected with evidence of fraud in Rio Grande do Sul milk production chain is undergoing a profound transformation process, both structurally and operationally . Proof of this is the establishment of Instruction N o . 62, from December 29, 2011, in which the Ministry of Agriculture regulates the production, identification, quality, collection and transport of type A milk, refrigerated raw milk and pasteurized milk. Given the changes occurring in the dairy activity, and the importance of milk in human nutrition, the present study aims to conduct a general socio-economic characterization of the establishments that produce milk Itaqui / RS and are not included in the standards required by law. Based on the characteristics and nature of the investigation, this study fits into a qualitative research method and uses the case study, with observations and interviews (for conducting the field work). With these results it may be noted that the informal producers of Itaqui - RS, are on the margin of the informal market, due to its economic and social characteristics, because as noted, their age and low education, reflected in the inability to deal with new technology, beyond the barriers faced by these producers, as most of them work with areas allocated by the city or private places into disuse by the owner, herd shows no uniformity of race and location of properties in urban areas. The present study allowed us to obtain a characterization of the current reality of informal establishments in the city of Itaqui - RS and provided material for future studies.