Marketing of Wood from Natural Forests in the State of Mato Grosso from 2004 to 2009

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to analyze the lumber commercialization of tropical forest native tree species in the State of Mato Grosso from 2004 to 2009, through the classification of the “Planning Regions” and municipalities’ suppliers of wood. The data were collected at the checking station of the Institute for Agricultural Defense (INDEA/MT), in the industrial district of Cuiaba, State of Mato Grosso. All trucks which passed through the checkpoint transporting wood were inspected. It was possible to identify the wood municipalities’ suppliers and the transported volume through wood load documents such as fiscal receipts and forest guide forms. It was observed that, in the analyzed period, the wood marketing presented the rate increased over the years, but with decreasing annual rates. Out of the 141 municipalities, 81 (54.7%) were identified as origin sources of the commercialized wood. The Planning Regions XII, I, II, X and XI, were the ones with the greatest contribution (92.7%) to the total wood volume commercialized in the analyzed period.

Keywords:
State of Mato Grosso (MT); timber pole; wood commercialization.