O processo de tomada de decisão dos produtores de alfafa: uma análise no município de Dezesseis de Novembro/RS

Abstract

The subject of development has its origins on post-war period, and it was on the years following Second World War that development turns to be an agenda of modern economics discussions and interests. Slowly, the notion of development was comprehend on a vast and complex sphere, beyond economic growth. Rural development emerges from the perspective of rectifying social inequalities on countryside, and agriculture is one of the essential segments on political promotion that aims to promote rural development. Also, presents itself as a relevant segment to the social economic growth on diferente countries around the world, outstanding as a source of work and survival for part of the population. Therefore, it is relevant to study the producer's process of decision-making, who's influenced by diferente orientations, which can explain his stability and performance on countryside. Rationalities are perceived as the way of thinking and understand reality, perceptions that the producer has of himself and the world around him. In view of this context, the following research delineated as general objective to comprehend the process of decision-making of alfalfa producer, on the municipality of Dezesseis de Novembro/ RS. Study adopted as theoretical-methodologic the phenomenological approach and as for the nature of the issue, it is a qualitative research. Besides, as for the proposed objectives, it is an explanatory study. The data collection was hold by interviewing alfalfa producers on their Familiar Production Units, and therefore analyzed through content analysis. Data analysis enable to explain the main characteristics of alfalfa producers families, as for property managing, scholarship, age and occupation of the interviewed and other members of the family nucleus, establishing an explanatory profile of those families. Data allowed to comprehend how the decision-making process occurs for alfalfa producers, identifying that they are influenced by economic and non-economic factors, explained by the instrumental, social, expressive and intrinsic orientations. It was possible to analyzed how the rationalities, instrumental and substantive, are manifest regarding the orientations that influence the alfalfa producers' decision-making process. Study finding contributes for the theoretical reinforcement of rationalities on alfalfa producers' decision making process, unified with socioeconomic development of the Dezesseis de Novembro/RS municipality, as well as for the importance of the study theme on rural development, familiar agriculture, orientations and rationalities presents on the decision-making process of producers, as a perspective of local and regional development. Thus, it is noticed the necessity of new studies that arise through this dissertation, as for the rural exodus of young people on Dezesseis de Novembro/RS resulting on elderly, also, the need of a study that aims to comprehend the importance of female work on alfalfa producers families of this municipality.