Agroforestry Systems (SAFs) is an alternative to the conventional agricultural
practices and use of the soil still little employed by family farmers, however, with
great economical and environmental importance. To motivate implantations of these
alternative systems is relevant due the concerns with the biodiversity conservation
and global climatic changes. The cocoa tree is an appropriate crop to be established
in SAFs systems due the need of shadow of this crop, being the municipality of
Medicilândia, West of the State of Pará, Brazil, one of the main poles of cocoa
production from Brazil. Aiming to understand which factors contribute and/or limit the
use of SAFs as productive activity in the municipality of Medicilândia, in our study we
applied questionnaires with objective and subjective questions to 73 farming families,
approaching the specificities of all these families, their farms, access to the public
politics, and commercialization of products from agriculture and SAFs. In this study
were identified 164 arrangements of these Agroforestry systems, with their ages
varying between 4 and 38 years. The main factors that support the adoption of SAFs
by farmers from Medicilândia, PA, are related to the economical and productive
aspects, being the market existence and increase of income by farmers factors that
highlight this adoption. In contrast, the main limitation refers to the inadequacy and
low quality of the services offered by public technical support, which affects directly
the production of these systems once the administration of SAFs without technical
support can reduce, considerably, the productivity of the crops.
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