Um projeto de desenvolvimento regional no extremo oeste catarinense : o caso do Frigorífico Safrita de Itapiranga

Abstract

Colonization Porto Novo, located in the extreme west of Santa Catarina, was conceived by Volksverein and founded in 1926 in order to receive families who were of German descent and Catholic. This colonization bought lots of land of approximately 25 acres, settlers in the first three decades of colonization practiced traditional agriculture featuring a model society with characteristics strongly horizontal and homogeneous. In this scenario we consider the settlers, traders and Jesuit priests as the three major social spheres and how they related to determining the focus of our study. However, from the 1950s the scenario of the national economy began to suffer intense changes stimulated by optimal developmental and progressive plan to stimulate the growth of the Brazilian economy. In this sense, it spread across the country the notion of delay Brazilian productive sector. So was stimulated thereafter integration projects affecting national productive sectors of the country, especially for agriculture. In Itapiranga with the emancipation of the municipality in 1954 and the inauguration of the Municipal Economic Development in the early 1960s, started to draw some goals and projects aimed at regional development. Accordingly, we designed a study entitled Economic Development Report, which listed the weaknesses and strengths of the regional economy. This study was supported with funds from the Municipal Administration Itapiranga, the local credit union and Catholic institution in West Germany Misereor. It is in this context that our study, which aims to understand the process of implementation and development of the Sociedade Anônima Frigorífico de Itapiranga Safrita. Given the great potential of swine in the region, was inaugurated in 1962 to industrialize a refrigerator and add value to agricultural production in the region. Before long the refrigerator expanded its scope, encompassing the production of poultry, turkeys and balanced rations. The study aims to contextualize the process of change occurring in regional agriculture in the 1960s and 1970s under the stimulus of the refrigerator Safrita, which established a new standard of regional society under economic bias. Social relations, which until the 1950s were basically flat and homogeneous character, went on to become vertically integrated and uneven, increasing the differentiation between own sphere of settlers and capital on the farms. This analysis is included in discussions of regional development to analyze a agribusiness venture that has arisen primarily local social capital