Produção de mudas : diagnóstico e situação atual nos viveiros do município de Rondonópolis - MT

Abstract

The Cerrado is the second largest Brazilian biome in extension, being the richest savanna in biodiversity in the world. With high degree of endemism, the biome shelters more than 11 thousand sorts of already catalogued native plants, according to the Ministry of the Environment. Awareness of environmental issues has grown significantly in recent years. Therewith it has been increasing the demand for seedlings production for the most varied aims. Be for the domestic or commercial vegetable garden, processes of reforestation, public or residential gardens, the installation of fruitful orchards or other finalities. This sector has extreme importance socioeconomic for the country, and the studies on the productive system of seeds and forest seedlings are of great relevance, so much for production and protection, as for the landscaping in the scope urban. The local authority of Rondonópolis – MT was selected for this study due to concentration of few information made a list to the production of seedlings in the region, which compensation is an area of scarce knowledge as for seedlings production for the realization of projects for turned to the environmental area. The inquiry was carried out from bibliographical study, lifting and interviews near the nurseries of Rondonópolis. It was ended that only a nursery has assertive production of native seedlings, the rest do not produce native forest seedlings and his high marketing is turned for ornamental seedlings. Evidence itself the inequalities existence shows up in the organization of the chain of native forest sorts and the low search demand in the region. Many producers have not the formalized production and are not set up in the system Renasem.