Estudo da qualidade dos alimentos comercializados nas feiras da agricultura familiar de Francisco Beltrão

Abstract

The term Family Farming in Brazil emerged in the 1990s in three phases, with political and academic affirmation, the creation of PRONAF and the Agricultural Census, before which the terms usually used to qualify and identify these social categories were those of small producer, subsistence producer or low-income producers. Family agriculture arises from the formation of small landowners who work through the use of the labor force of their family members, in which they produce both for their own consumption and for commercialization, and which are generally passed from parents to children, together with the technology of transforming these raw materials. However, the knowledge of how and why to produce with quality and safety is little known, and therefore, good manufacturing practices are essential requirements necessary to guarantee the quality of raw materials and finished products, being applied in all stages of the productive process. In the central square of Francisco Beltrão, the rural producer's fair takes place twice a week, where they sell their fresh products straight from the countryside, and have become a reference in the city for the sale of colonial products. Therefore, the development of the project was to monitor the manufacture of food in order to analyze the quality and good manufacturing practices and offer training activities to contribute to the continuous improvement for the quality of food produced by family farming and sold at fairs of the municipality of Francisco Beltrão - PR and thus obtain practical results of great impact on food security, with greater objectivity in solving sanitary problems that guide the production and commercialization of food by family agriculture and agroindustries in the municipality.