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.
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