DOI: 10.5176/2010-4804_3.1.285
Authors: N. R. Furquim and D. C. Cyrillo
Abstract:
This study aimed at searching the Brazilian beef production chain actors perception about SISBOV and the consequences that traceability system has brought to the Brazilian beef producers exporting to the EU. For that purpose it was used the Collective Subject Discourse qualiquantitative methodology, tool that allows making it known the collective opinion about a specific subject. The survey was based upon a sample of thirty-four persons, both genders, most of them with a high level of education, belonging to five different categories of actors related to the cattle production in Brazil: farmers, slaughterhouses, certifying companies, class associations and governmental regulatory organizations. Results have shown that SISBOV is perceived as a feasible traceability system for wealthier farmers dealing with exports, considering the critical costs for certifying the farms without revenue guarantee, due to the slaughterhouses monopoly power. As an advantage, SISBOV is perceived as a better way of managing the farms, promoting the cattle sanitary quality. Nevertheless, it must be pointed out that the traceability exigencies from several countries put together tarifary barriers that contradict the free trade approach, also taking into account the lower disease prevalence in extensive cattle growing as it is observed in Brazil.
Keywords: Beef, Exports, Management, Traceability
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