Cadeia de comercialização de produtos de floresta secundária dos municípios de Bragança, Capitão Poço e Garrafão do Norte – Pará

Abstract

Many studies about secondary forest associate it with important bio-geo- chemists functions to degenerated ecosystems in the Amazon basin, transforming it in important component to be preserved in the landscape. To conserve these forest areas, in the last years a lot of studies has been done to demonstrate the secondary forest importance to small holding system. This study characterized commercialization chains of Secondary Forest products, categorized by fruitful (açaí, bacuri, buriti), timber (vegetable coal, firewood and stake), derived of animal (bee honey) and medicinal plants (andiroba, barbatimão, copaíba, sucuúba, unha-de-gato and veronica) in the county of Bragança, Capitão Poço and Garrafão do Norte, in Pará State, Brazil. For each category was studied the commercialized production, gross income generated, mercantile agents involved and commercialization channels structures. The research methodology was based in the Leontief Input-Output Product theory that helps to describes and analyzes the commercialization structures and value aggregation along the productive chain. For this study were used field data collected in 2004. The main results were: identification of well established commercialization chains in informal markets; the mercantile relationships established to the commercialization of secondary forest products exhibit advantages on the agricultural products; and the better gross income accomplishes with direct sale to the final consumer.