A Aquicultura nas microrregiões bragantina e do salgado paraense, Amazônia Oriental (Pará, Brasil)

Abstract

Aquaculture has been increasing among Brazilian agricultural activities and in 2010 produced 38% of fish consumed in the country, but the state of Para, despite ali its environmental potential, yet does little with this production. The Northeastem State stands by environmental characteristics and favorable logistical conditions for the development of aquaculture activity. In the study area were identified 73 projects in micro region Bragantina, with an average yield of 2.2 tones/hectare, which is influenced by cropping system, feeding, type of supply, education and labor of the producer and the purpose of cultivation. The 34 projects identified in the micro Salgado have an average yield of 2.48 tones/hectare, which is influenced by system and method of cultivation, feeding, cultivated species and form of sale/consumption of the product. The aquaculture activity in the micro regions Bragantina and Salgado commercially develops, promotes social inclusion. In general, these enterprises employ management techniques simplified, without planning and with low productivity as a result of lack of technical guidance and access to resources for adaptation infrastructure, indicating a supply chain scattered and disorganized that generates bottlenecks such as high cost of inputs, disability the supply of fingerlings and management problems in the projects. To raise the productivity of enterprises, it is necessary to conduct a aquacultor production planning and marketing, strengthening the market with a regular supply of the product and add value through processing of fish. Public policies should foster strategies that take into account the particularities of each region by organizing and empowering the farmers, enabling qualified technical support, provide capital for investment in their ventures and the development of technologies with rational concern for preserving natural resources.