The apicultural activity aiming at the honey production, comes being developed has
some years for familiar agriculturists of the City of Capitao Poço, who practise the
beekeeping as complementary or main activity. This research studies and analyzes
the partner-economic importance of the apicultural activity in the honey production as
complementary activity for composition of income in Units of Familiar Production in
the City of Capitao Poço, in the northeast Territory Paraense. The objectives of this
study had been to identify to the handling for the production of honey and the
partner-economic importance of this activity in the units of familiar production, beyond
analyzing the possibility of organic production of honey in Capitao Poço. The
research was carried through in 24 communities, based in the methodology of
diagnosis of agrarian systems in the city of Capitao Poço, in which 105 families had
been interviewed, with aid of questionnaires elaborated with objective and subjective
questions approaching the situation, income, production of honey, extra farming
activity and activities agrarian lots. The GPS was used in some communities as tool
for the apicultural land reference for the identification of the distances between city of
the bees. The results demonstrate the growth of the production of honey in the year
of 2007, particularly when compared with the two previous years. Ahead of the
reached results, its possible to conclude that the honey complements enters 10%
30% the familiar income for 59 families of familiar agriculturists. The number of
beekeepers increased enters the years of 2004 (65 beekeepers) and 2007 (105
beekeepers). The total production that in 2004 arrived the 48,870 kg of honey, in the
1961 beehives, jumped in 2007 for 94100 kg in the 3670 beehives, resulting in the
increase of the total production of honey in 92,55%. The potential of organic
production of honey in old areas of settling of Capitao Poço is low in front of the
agrarian situation of the city. The beekeeping is an rentable producing activity that
must be faced as complementary activity for the studied region, establishing
connection the social, economic and ambient aspects.
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