Strong businesses in State

Mining

In the region of the Seridó, the State has an enormous and increasing mineral potential, with deposits of scheelita, tungsten and kaolin, among others. A laboratory of even mineral analyses will be installed in taking off the miner of the hands of the profiteers. The Technological Center of the Ore of Currais Novos goes to fortify the sector. The Secretariat of Economic Development is elaborating a new geologic map of the Rio Grande do Norte that will have to be ready until the end of this year.

Transnordestina

Has commitment gotten together to the Presidency of the Republic for inclusion of the Rio Grande do Norte in the railroad route of the Transnordestina, will be initiated the economic feasibility study for the construction of the Mossoró/ junction branch with the Macau/Natal branch. This will facilitate the draining of the salt production, cement, granite, fruits, shrimp and oil. They are approximately 130 kilometers of extension and costs of the order of 65 Real million. The restoration of the existing branch between Macau and Natal, of 240 kilometers, is calculated in 32 Real million.

Carcinicultura

The carcinicultura, (culture of shrimp in captivity) is one of the main economic activities of the Rio Grande do Norte currently. In accordance with survey of the Brazilian Association of Creators of Shrimp, the State enters 362 farms of culture distributed by an area of 5.402 hectares. In the first trimester of 2005, 4,7 a thousand tons of the crustacean had been exported, approximately 80% of the production to potiguar. This guaranteed the maintenance of Rio Grande do Norte as bigger exporter and producer of shrimp of the Country. They are esteem that the activity generates today about 30 a thousand jobs between indirect right-handers and in the State. The production is intent mainly in the cities of Canguaretama, Pendencies, Maxaranguape, São Gonçalo do Amarante and Mossoró.

Salt

The Rio Grande do Norte is the national producing greater of salt, answering for 90% of everything what it is consumed in the Country. The production if concentrates mainly in the cities of Macau, Mossoró and Areia Branca. In 2004, the State produced 4,82 million tons. The salineiro park to potiguar possesss capacity to produce up to 13 million tons of salt per year. At least 50% of the salt produced for the companies potiguares are destined to the chemical, situated industry to a large extent in the Bahia and São Paulo. The salineiro park to potiguar uses circa 15 a thousand people and has modern structure.

Fruticultura

The State of the Rio Grande do Norte- RN, presents climatic conditions extremely favorable to the culture of suitable fruit bowls to the tropical climate. With the use of the irrigation, it has been possible to produce, with quality, a great variety of fruits, destined to the national and international market. Today, after the Petrolina-Juazeiro Polar region - in the States of Pernambuco and Bahia - the RN is as the bigger producer of tropical fruits irrigated of Brazil and the main producer and exporter of cantaloups. The irrigated agricultural area in the RN is around 20.000 ha, of which situated 90% in the Açu-Mossoró Polar region. The main planted cultures are: cantaloups, banana and sleeve. Other cultures, as of the coconut and of the cashew, traditionally explored as of dry land, already are being worked in irrigated areas, presenting excellent levels of productivity. In the first quadrimestre of this year, 31 million only in fruits had been exported USS, in average 30% more than in the same period of the last year. The prominences had been the cashew cantaloups, banana, chestnut and the papaya. In the case of the cashew chestnut, in the first quadrimestre of 2005, it had sells to the exterior in a USS total 15,3 million, a volume 90% superior to the registered one in first the four months of 2004.

Real estate sector

The real estate Sector lives great boom in the Rio Grande do Norte and in Natal in particular. The new launchings, that had only added investments of R$ 120 million in the last year this year, until April, already 90 million added R$. The expectation of the Union of the Industry of the Civil Construction of the State is of that the growth of the sector this year is of 8%. In the mat of this growth, the Alphaville giant launched, in February of 2005, its Native Alphaville. The 913 lots, that forecast had to be commercialized in three months, had been selled in only eight hours. The AlphaVille Urbanism is investing about R$ 35 million for the implantation of the enterprise, and must conclude the infrastructure workmanships in a stated period of 24 months. The biggest concentration of new real estate investments concentrates it the long one of the coast and, in the urban region, the Beach of Ponta Negra, where the valuation of the square meter, in last the ten years, arrives amazing 3000% (according to data of the Regional Advice of Coretores of real State). Moreover, Norwegian, Portuguese, French and Catalan groups have bet high in projects of luxury destined the European customers. They are resorts, closed condominiums and hotels in profusion, concentrated mainly in beaches as They are São Miguel do Gostoso, Muriú, Pitangui and Perobas (in the coast North) and Baia Formosa, Búzios, Tabatinga, Barra do Cunhaú and Pipa (in the South coast).

Terminal fishing boat

Has a resource in the OGU, the Special Secretariat of Fishes, the Government of the State and the participation of the private initiative. It includes a center of recovery of boats and a school of shipyards. A thousand boats in shed that today they look to the Bahamas and Uruguay. These boats work mainly in fish of the tuna in deep waters.

Importance of the Transposition of the River São Francisco

The transposition will remove 1% of the water of the San Francisco (one of the biggest rivers of the Country and that it empties in the verge enters the states of Sergipe and Bahia). Of this volume of water, two chaplets will come to Rio Grande do Norte. We will duplicate our hídricas possibilities, of 15 million liters for second for 30 million, outflow enough to even availability water for the Region of the Great Weeds. Between the River Açu and the city of Jandaíra, 53 a thousand hectares of good lands for irrigation exist. In Touros, it has another area of 10 a thousand hectares needing water. The Rio Grande do Norte is prepared to receive waters from the Old Chico. Hídrica Com.segurança, nobody will prevent the explosion of the agro-business.

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