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Abstract
This study aims to determine the degree of knowledge and adherence of family
farmers of rural settlement Chapadinha, in Sobradinho (DF), to organic production
regulations established in Brazil. The research methodology used included open
interviews that intended to assess the perceptions and knowledge of the producers on the
most important regulations for organic production in Brazil: Law 10831/2003, Decree
6323/2007 and the Normative Instruction 46/2011; these standards had been integrated into three units of analysis: guidelines of systems and production, marketing processes and control mechanisms.
The paper points out that the documentation is the biggest bottleneck in smallholder certification process, as these
requirements are complex, and there is less training related to the proper understanding of these documents. In
relation to the marketing process and control mechanisms it was identified that the producers have a degree of
incomplete knowledge related to some of the rules of the parameters related to these aspects, damaging time for
certification, requiring greater technical guidance and monitoring.