Economical aspects of the productive chain of bromeliads in the Metropolitan Area of Curitiba and the coastal region of Parana state

Abstract

Economical aspects of the productive chain of bromeliads in the Metropolitan Area of Curitiba and the coastal region of Parana state. The bromeliads occur all along Brazilian territory, with highest diversity in the atlantic forest area, between the states of Parana and Bahia. The family is constituted of 54 genera and approximately 2663 species where about 70% of the genera and 40% of the species occur in Brazil. Questionnaires were applied to bromeliad extractors, producers and wholesalers with the objective of obtaining economical data. From these data the index of gross commercialization margins and markup of commercialization were calculated. We also built a flow concerning all the actors that compose the marketing chain. The obtained results indicate that most of the profitability of this chain is appropriate by the middlemen, mainly the wholesalers. Conservation techniques of cultivation as well as understanding campaigns with the consumers should be developed for an increase of the production and consequently a reduction in the predatory extraction of bromeliads in the forest remainders areas of the Parana state.