Economics Amazon – 2
The main products of vegetable extraction are: wood, rubber, cashew-nut, cocoa, essences, oils Copaiba and Andiroba, piassava, coconut, acai, and bacuri. The mining continues to expand and the most important products are: bauxite, iron, salt, manganese, lignite, gold and tin, the municipalities of Presidente Figueiredo and New Aripuanã, diamonds, nickel, copper, limestone, gypsum, lead, kaolin and tin. The extraction of oil and gas occurs in the field of Urucu in Coari, with processing and distribution from the REMAN – Refinery Manaus.
In agriculture the main products are: jute, malva, guarana, cassava, banana, cane sugar, beans, oranges, cocoa, cupuaçú, corn and black pepper, while the livestock shows cattle, pig and buffalo small scale. The southern state is the most used for the development of agriculture and livestock in the counties of Apuí Humaitá, New Aripuanã and Manicoré, but livestock has also highlighted the municipalities of Altazar Careiro and Lowland.
Ecotourism, with average growth of 6% per year, is the segment that is more extensive, according to data from FGV. In the state operating lodges of international level, offering raids and other activities in the Amazon forest, and river cruise lines and fishing.
Today, through the calendar of national and international fairs of the Amazon under the symbol – FIAM – in Suframa, Attract different investors, Brazil and other countries, to invest in different technology centers, in the region and especially in the Industrial Pole of Manaus (PIM) is developing rapidly, and foreigners can cause major business opportunities that the potential Amazon provides economic and is able to offer, with its infrastructure, labor, skilled labor and many other competitive advantages.
Fairs promote the economic potential of the region, including industrial products and cutting-edge regional made based on local raw materials, as well as tourist attractions, seeking sustainable development by stimulating trade, cultural, science and technology.
In the FIAM program in Suframa in the Industrial Pole of Manaus, with different industrial districts in the state of Amazonas, the largest state in area of the Federation, where there is the exhibition of regional products and industrial, institutional projects, seminars and lectures on various topics, especially those related to technological innovation , biodiversity, tourism, training of intellectual capital and other, mainly related to the development of the region.
