Plantas ornamentais: uma alternativa para o desenvolvimento da agricultura familiar no projeto de assentamento Canoas, no município de Presidente Figueiredo-AM

Abstract

There is, nowadays, in the national and international market, a strong demand for tropical flowers. In Amazon, the floriculture can become an important agricultural activity to generate jobs and income opportunity to the small farmer of the region. With the objective of doing an inventory of the ornamental plants species that naturally occur, in forests of land of the community of Canoas, in Presidente Figueiredo, in Amazon State., it was sampled 3 long transects: one primary forest measuring 0,4 ha and two in secondary forests measuring 0.3 ha each one. In the raising of phytosociological spects data were the frequencies, the abundances, and the value exponents of importance. To define the ornamental potential and the opening of the canopy it was used the multivariate analysis technique. It was registered 710 individuals distributed in 6 families, 12 genus and 19 species Among the botany materials collected, the species Calathea panamensis, Heliconia spathocircinata, Heliconia chartacea, Heliconia acuminata, Diefenbachia sp and Heliconia sp occurrence of as plants of higher ornamental potential. It’s worth to register occurrence of two rare species: Heliconia sp and Costus sp. Generally, this preliminary research shows that the ornamental potential existent in a small area of the studies forests, allows that the familiar farmers of Presidente Figueiredo use these species in the suitable cultivation systems to generate jobs and income in the area of Canoas settlement.