Modeling of the profile of the agrarian management of the closed forest in the region of the Santa Catarina’s Plateau

Abstract

The catarinense plateaus, known as a typical region of farming, is becoming more and more, a forest base region. However, the high demand for land is becoming an impediment for the investors, causing a “scarcity” of this factor of production. Thus, such investors are searching alternative forms for forest planting such as land lease and fomentation. When developing these activities, they look to turn the agriculturist their partner, giving them conditions so that they remains in the field, what contributes in social aspects, as well as in environment aspects. This study had as general objective to shape the profile of the agrarian management in the closed forest in the region of the Santa Catarina’s Plateaus. Questionnaires were applied to 109 producers or proprietors of lands. They were separated in four groups of interest for the study: a) proprietors through foment, b) land lease, c) with proper resources and d) those that did not present interest in reforestation. These groups were related to the 65 independent variables, all of socioeconomic and environmental aspect. According with the final results, it could be concluded that no variable alone has the power to abruptly modify the result of the profile of each studied group. The model 13, with 36 variables, was the one that presented the best set of adjustment for the parameters.