Estudo de casos sobre a rastreabilidade bovina em empresas rurais informatizadas

Abstract

This study looked for evaluate the impacts that the adhesion to the bovine traceability caused in four agricultural companies that adopted or used ITs for tracked herd management. The research was accomplished in two parts: 1st) theoretical revision about beef cattle, traceability and certification, informations systems, impacts of IT adoption in the organizations, and impacts of the IT in the management of tracked companies; 2nd) interviews with directors and technical consultants of the agricultural companies to explain about the main impacts that happened, with the people, in the content and nature of the tasks, in the administration of the companies and in the adoption and or use of ITs; and interviews with the director of the company who does the certification, on the same subjects. After the comparison of the case studies it was concluded that: the adhesion of traceability caused the adoption of ITs, mainly of the management and traceability system for beef cattle and the electronic scale; the zootechnical changes that happened were, the individual identification of the animals, the control of animal stock and the possibility to determine acting and reproductive indexes; the management changes that happened were the appearance of new controls as the filing of the animal identification document (DIA), the documentation of the purchase, use and exit of inputs (nutritional and sanitariums), and the documentation of animal movements. It was not verified the return of managerial or zootechnical information by SISBOV that aided the companies in their take decision process. In function of that, the informations demanded for realize the traceability process are faced, mainly for the rural companies, as an increase of bureaucracy for management of the livestock, that only compensates to be done by the economical point of in function of the paid prize for the arroba of the tracked ox.