GENERATION OF EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL BENEFICES:

Workplaces generated: 10 full-time jobs and 30 additional harvest hands during 120 days/year, for each 500 hectares of plantation.

It aggregates economic value to the agricultural and forest activities, benefiting the country with one more item for its export offers, with a sales potential 20 times superior to soybeans.

It fixes the workers dependent of the forest activity in places nearer to the urban centers, giving them a better quality of life.

It betters the rural population´s purchase power and promotes a great development for the region.