Difficulties to the inclusion of small land proprieties in the wood production chain in the state of Parana

Abstract

This paper attempts to talk about the main difficulties faced by the Small Land Properties (SLP) in being included in the whole Wood Production Chain (WPC) as well as its way of participation in this chain. It has been pictured the perceptions from all the agents involved in the whole wood production chain in the State of Paraná. This work reflects a descriptive research based on data collected from the literature, as well as from an inquiry form applied to selected groups. Three groups were considered: a) government (GOV), with 81 forms; b) non-government (N-GOV), with 76 forms; and c) smal farmers (PROD), with 97 forms, adding to 254 inquiry forms. The resuslts showed that the smal farmers have low participation in the WPC, it means that eventhogh the State's forest Protuction Gross Value (PGV) has been increasing each year, the smal farmers are still mere wood suppliers only. Other than that demonstrate that they recieve little government support, mainly technical assistance and production, trademarket and legal rules information, obstructing a lot its insetion in the WPC.