Costs of land opportunity for low impact manegement in the tropical forest – a case study

Abstract

This work had the objective of analyzing the influence of the land opportunity costs in the cost of low impact management in the tropical forest in two production cycles. The data utilized came from a company that explores a forest land localized in the Marcelândia city, state of Mato Grosso, and commercializes the logs with the industries of the region. The results showed the increasing of the variables costs of R$ 39,56/m³ to R$ 43,09/m³ a long the first cycle in function of the silvicultures treatments, with the same fixed costs in R$ 22,62/m³. In the second cycle it was observed a reduction in the total cost due to the increasing of productivity to 15 m³/ha, and the elimination of pre-harvesting and harvesting operations, with the average variable cost changing to R$ 30.69 and the average fixed cost to R$ 18,10/m³. Taking into account the value of land opportunity costs, the average fixed cost was respectively the greatest share in the total costs, that is R$ 45.99/m³ and R$ 34.37/m³ in the first and second cycles.