Caracterização da cadeia produtiva da madeira no município de Rosário de Sul - RS

Abstract

In the state of Rio Grande do Sul, forest activities has assumed significant importance in recent decades. This occurred because the state has favorable climate conditions for growing forest, as well public and private institutions that produce scientific and technological knowledge, applied to forest agribusiness. For that reason, the region of the west border of the state received significant investment from companies in the forest sector, both for the production as well wood processing. Due to the dynamic, productive and emerging configuration, this research aims to characterize wood production chain in Rosario do Sul, RS. In order to get the necessary information, semi-structured interviews were made with the companies in the wood production chain in the city. Companies were interviewed in the following wood production chain: supply of raw materials; forest production; wood processing and industrial processing of forest raw material. On the whole, eight companies were interviewed, being six personally interviews and two interviews answered by e-mail, requested for these companies. It can be concluded that the forest sector, in the present time, had a great growth in the field of development in Rosário do Sul, with a increase in the cultivated area and employment generation, that also boosts local trade, becoming along with the agricultural activities and cattle raising the main segments of the local economy.