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Poster Number Remote

See more from this Division: ASA Section: Land Management & Conservation
See more from this Session: General Military Land Use and Management: II

Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Tampa Convention Center, East Exhibit Hall

ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

Abstract:
In the Amazon, the agricultural production systems are changing the paradigm of extensive livestock production systems, having the municipality of Paragominas, in the northeastern Pará as a reference in agriculture initiatives with low carbon emissions. After facing serious economic and social problems due to misuse of the land, in 2010 the town received the title of Green Town, by adopting sustainable agricultural practices. The objective was to draw a temporal profile of Paragominas Agricultural systems. Data was provided by the Brazilian Institute of geography and statistics (IBGE) and the National Institute for space research (INPE). Grain production and timber extraction evaluation has been base on an homogenous historical serie from 1990 to 2011. The deforestation increment was evaluated using data from INPE from 2000 to 2011. The results showed a decrease in the timber extraction. In the early 1990 the extraction reached 15,030,000 m³, being one of the main economic activities of the municipality, suffering reductions in 2011 to 187,621 m³ (IBGE, 2013). Starting from 1996, logging declined and the Paragominas grain production by local, State and federal agencies, as well as farmers, intensifies. Up to the early 2000 the soy Production of Paragominas hub (Paragominas, Dom Eliseu and Ulianópolis) was meaningless, but since 2009 Paragominas hub has become the leading producer of soy of the State of Pará. In 2009, 2010 and 2011 the town of Paragominas was responsible for, respectively, 21%, 30%, 38% of the soybean production, it should be noted that since 2010 the Paragominas hub represents more than 50% of the soybeans grown in the State (IBGE, 2013). The change of land use strategy causes a decrease of the deforestation in the city over the last five-year. Between 2004/2005 the increase in deforestation was 330.5 km², between 2010/2011 it decreased to 36 km² (INPE, 2013).

See more from this Division: ASA Section: Land Management & Conservation
See more from this Session: General Military Land Use and Management: II

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