PROSPECÇÃO DE TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTAL: OPORTUNIDADES E DESAFIOS DE UM GRUPO EMPRESARIAL AVÍCOLA

Abstract

Industry, commerce and agribusiness are major generators of waste, which creates a need for treatment, transportation and disposal in landfills. Alagoas, where agribusiness stands out, has a great lack of animal waste recycling plants. The article describes a case study carried out at Grupo Beltrão Avícola, located in the municipality of Arapiraca-Alagoas, with the purpose of prospecting machinery for the installation of an industrial plant for processing waste from its slaughterhouse, generating by-products that can be transformed into nutritional additives in the formulation of various types of feed for poultry farms and also in fish and shrimp farms. The methodological procedures were based on exploratory research, through a qualitativeand quantitative approach, since it was necessary to identify the internal elements of the organization, as well as the external elements related to the performance of the region's innovation ecosystem that could interfere with the new venture. The result of the study identified companies that sell recycling machinery; allowed to point out the opportunities and challenges of the poultry sector in animal recycling; and propose the viability of a business that would involve chicken farmers, slaughterhouses in the city and the company studied, to invest and share in the purchase of equipment, operational costs, labor and distribution of products, adopting the cooperative model that would strengthen the proposal for the implementation of an environmental, profitable and sustainable technology.

KEYWORDS: agribusiness, poultry sector; animal waste recycling plant, animal feed, cooperativism.