ASPECTOS PRODUTIVOS DA ABACAXICULTURA FAMILIAR E COMERCIAL NO ESTADO DA PARAÍBA

Abstract

The pineapple in Paraíba, the fruitful of larger economical importance is considered, with an area planted with more 11.000 there are, and with one of the best productivities at national level, about 23 t/ha. This research was developed in six producing municipal districts in the State, located in the area of the Swamp and Zone of the Forest, in the months of May, June and July of 2006, with the objective to diagnose the process of production of the culture of the pineapple. The data were obtained through a structured questionnaire, approaching information on the productive and socioeconomic process of the culture, being 10 questionnaires for municipal district, which were maybe distributed to the and applied in a direct and individual way, approaching from the big to the small producer. The data were submitted to the analysis of frequency distribution and descriptive. It was verified that the pineapple of cultivating 'Pérola' was the favorite for the producing of small and big load, and most of the pineapple produced in the State he/she feels in the small production, the crop is made in a handmade way, and most of the time without application of powder-crop techniques. Good part of the producers doesn't receive technical attendance it publishes, nor matter.