Análise do segmento de trutas: abordagens de cadeia produtiva e turismo rural

Abstract

This study was the first step in getting knowledge about the trout sector in the Brazilian Southeast, from the production chain approach and rural tourism. The general objective was to characterize the current levels of national production and productivity of the trout producers, the potential of investments, the impediments for the growth, the market opportunities and the trends of the producer, as well as identifying the possible strategies for the growth and development of the production chain in the Southeast. Specifically, one searched to identify and to characterize the components of the productive chain; to characterize the partner-economic conditions of the trout producers and to create database to guide the private investments and / or the development of specific public policy for the segment. For this, it was selected and interviewed a representative sample of producers. The results had disclosed that the segment of trout in the Southeast is a hybrid component of the Agro-food System, guided for the production and the sector of services (commerce and leisure) that contrasts with the productive system of the main producing countries that operate in industrial scale. It is a short chain, still in formation, whose consolidation is associated with the regional specialty and the activities of rural tourism. The initial hypothesis was partially corroborated. In fact the activity has capacity to fix workers in the field, however its capacity of generation of work ranks is minor than expected and the relation with the agricultural tourism, duly used to advantage, has potential to promote the regional development.