A Indústria frigorífica de carne bovina de mato grosso do sul: entre grupos internacionalizados e as unidades de mercado interno

Abstract

The refrigeration sector in Mato Grosso do Sul is one of the main responsible for inserting it in the world export scenario through agribusiness commodities. The 39 state-owned refrigerators are subdivided into 12 internationalized units, primarily exporters, the so-called Global Players JBS, Marfrig and Minerva, and another 27 units, which act primarily to supply the domestic beef market. Of these, 13 operate under the control of the Federal Inspection System (SIF) and 14 under the State Inspection System (SIE). The objective of this work was to characterize the industrial activity of beef from South-Mato Grosso, seeking to represent it in its articulations and sector interactions, through the analysis of its productive space circuit. The proposed discussion was based on the categories of Socio-spatial Formation and Economic Cycles, from which we discussed the livestock and refrigeration training and the idle capacity of this industrial activity in South-Mato Grosso. We start from the hypothesis that beef slaughterhouses, in view of the performance of large companies in the sector, promoted strategic changes in their production processes, an industrial restructuring of their slaughtering plants. The historical series of bovine slaughtering in the period between 2006 and 2016 shows an increase in the number of animals slaughtered in the SIE and SIF slaughterhouses in the State, which corroborates the hypothesis initially formulated.