Mapeamento de culturas permanentes e caracterização das propriedades rurais no município de Ourém - Pa: Relatório Técnico 01/2023.

Abstract

Permanent crops are important to the economy in the Amazon, where they are mostly grown by family farmers. In this study, we used high-resolution satellite images to map the permanent crops of citrus (orange, lemon and tangerine), palm oil and black pepper in the municipality of Ourém - PA. As a result, we identified 765.02 ha of these three cultures in the municipality, distributed in 263 producing rural properties. The oil palm crop had the highest number of rural properties (174) and planted area (541.05 ha), followed by citrus (47; 183.9 ha) and black pepper (42; 40.06 ha) . Grouping rural properties by size class, small properties (up to one fiscal module) accounted for 77%, medium properties (between 1 and 5 fiscal modules) 19%, and large properties (> 5 fiscal modules) 4%. In terms of cultivated area, citrus had the largest area planted in small properties (91.8%), followed by palm oil (44%) and black pepper (35%). For citrus, 100% of the planted area was on properties included in the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR), 79% in the case of black pepper, and only 59% in the case of oil palm. Additionally, we identified signs of degradation of Permanent Preservation Areas (APP) in an area of 250 ha present in 114 of the 263 mapped producing properties. The mapping carried out here and the results obtained can have several applications for strategic and environmental planning in the northeast of Pará