Productive and economic aspects in productive chain of black vine in Parana seaside

Abstract

The wild vegetal resource Philodendron melanorrhizum Reitz, known as black vine, is an important outcome resource for the communities living in the conservation units, as for the Guaratuba APA population. This research had as objective to describe in an economic point of view, the black vine productive chain in Parana seaside, focusing on the activities since the forest extraction up to its utilization as handcraft raw material. To achieve these objectives, the methodology consisted of the following steps: productive chain location, market structure analysis, organizational and institutional contexts, physical and financial flows, chain limitations and potential. The technical data was obtained through producers, purchasers, state and private institutions interviews in the state of the Paraná. The results shown that, in the region, there are 200 producers working on black vine handmade products. They are collected annually, an average of 23.000 kg of black vine and produced 77.760 handmade products. The medium production cost was of R$ 1,57 per unit. In the commerce, the average sales of the handmade products is of 60 units/month and the sales average price is R$ 6,79 per unit. The total commercialization markup of the chain is of 869,24%. According to the current resource, it was concluded that: 1) The black vine productive chain structure is very simple; 2) The largest part of the profit remains with the distributors; 3) The final consumer pays 869,24% more over the producer initial price.