The State of Rio de Janeiro is a great wood and non-wood product consumer from native or
reforested areas, most of the time out of the state limits. This fact commits the participation of
the state in the production, commercialization and export of forest products. The lack of
managerial planning, the expenses with transports and taxes inflates the final cost of the
products originated from forests, moving away investors and consumers and it turns the forest
state sector participation not very expressive. The general objective was to analyze the
fluminense forest sector and its insertion on the state economy with emphasis on the districts
participation. Specific objectives were a state forest sector diagnosis and the social economic
district layout to identify forest products consumption, commercialization and production
tendencies. To reach the objectives, besides the collection of information it was made a
simulation with different generated sceneries based on the forest products consumption. The
State of Rio de Janeiro has a demand for quite expressive forest products, from firewood and
vegetable coal to sawed wood, wood for paper and cellulose and also for the group other
purposes. This fact is corroborated when is verified the total sawed wood volume that entered
in the state, that only in the year of 2007 it surpassed the mark of the 300.000 cubic meters.
However, the offer of these products is very low, because the reforestations don't surpass the
30,000 hectares and the native resource besides scarce get into legal impediments for its use.
In spite of the little information on the offer and demand of forest products, especially the
wood, sawed or round, it was possible to identify a consumption tendency that can be
considered as a starting point for complementary studies on the subject. The State of Rio de
Janeiro has an industry of pieces of furniture in conditions to compete in the national and
international markets. The scenery II, proposes the reforestation inside of the state and expects
that there will be an increase of the sector participation in state GDP. The wood volume that
entered in the state, with values around the 180 million BRL, would pass for more than 5
billion BRL in the end of the second crop. Expressive it will also be the generation of direct
and indirect employments starting from the settling of the economic forestation that will
answer for more than 45,000 jobs. The collection of tributes will also increase reaching more
than a one million BRL per crop. The use of pasture areas on the Northwest and North will
also allow the development of those areas with the expectation of improvement of the index
of human development (IDH). According to the proposed sceneries is possible to identify that
reforestations in the state can bring new growth perspectives for the forest sector using non
productive pasture areas. Facing this it can be said that the State of Rio de Janeiro forest
industry is now on a latent stage just awaiting favorable conditions for a full development.
