The Brazilian northeast offers you a large variety of options that goes beyond the tourism. Know a little more about the activities in expansion in this region that, beyond beautiful landscapes, has huge economic potential:

Flowers

With huge competitive potential and high productivity, the north-eastern flowers culture blunts as one of the most promising activities. Fertile ground and adequate temperatures guarantee a production that can arrive the 200 roses por m²/year, two times superior to the productivity of Colombia, the greater grower in Latin American.

Pisciculture

The Region presents high and uniforms temperatures and during all year, making possible the culture of any species of tropical origin, with high productivity taxes.

The tilápias’ culture in tank-net, for example, is presented as an economic alternative in the Region, due to the existence of barrages and dams, supplied by River São Francisco and River Parnaiba’s water.

In Brazil, the production of tilápias, incipient until the beginning of the decade of 90, is, today, esteemed about 40 and 50 thousand tons/year.

Shrimp Farm

According to data of the Brazilian Association of Shrimp Creators - ABCC, the Northeast, with its 3,300 km of coast, is responsible for 94% of all the shrimp produced in Brazil. Among the greaters growers also is Rio Grande do Norte.

Beekeeping

Thanks to its enormous potential for the beekeeping, with flowers raise varied at different times of the year and perfect adaptation of the african bees, the Northeast will be, soon, the greater Brazilian producer of honey and others.

The migratory beekeeping, characteristic of northeast, reaches a productivity around 100 kg beehive/year, two times more than the fixed beekeeping, with productivity of 40 the 50 kg behive/year.

The Northeast is one of the two regions of the planet with the best conditions to produce organic honey. Deriving of wild plants, the honey is practically produced without use of poison.

Beverages

The northeastern beverage industry is diversified. In the valley of São Francisco River, the viniculture is consolidated as economic force of the region and conquest national and international market’s recognition.

Cachaça, traditional northeastern drink, gains each day more market in Brazil and exterior. Productive arrangements create aggregated value to these products, generating excellent chances of investments and confirming the trend of growth of the sector.

Software

The software development sector has a special characteristic for needing only intellectual capital for its growth.

The Northeast of Brazil presents great vocation for the growth of this sector, due to the proactive performance of the computer science departments of the local universities, the role played for networking of SOFTEX - National Program of Software for Exportation, and the good infrastructure of existing telematics in the Region, essential factors to produce virtuous cycles in this intensive activity in knowledge.

Plaster

Brazil possesses the biggest world-wide crude gypsum reserve (raw material of plaster), with 1,2 billion of tons, and presents as competitive distinguishing the pureness of this material, that is 98%. Using adequate technology, it is possible to manufacture a plaster of refined quality. Producing 90% of the plaster consumed in the Country.

Marble and Granite

The Brazilian Northeast possesses in its territory a great number of marbles and granites deposits of the most varied standards, colors and textures, with possibility supply the national and foreign consumers demand.

For its diversity of rocks, its privileged localization in relation to the great world-wide markets and the existing infra-structure of road and port, the Northeast presents a strong growth potential for this activity.

The sector’s competitive advantages open excellent business-oriented possibilities for the foreign improvement industries that want to settle themselves in the Region.

Electro-Electronics

Articulated with other productive, the example of the civil construction, household-electric sectors, machines, vehicles parts and electric energy equipment, the northeasternt productive chain of Electro-Eletronics has a lot to grow.

And offers expansion chances in a market that sees the growth of civil construction and the sector of vehicles parts, two of the greatest consuming of not-ferrous metals.

Tourism

The beaches that the northeast coast offers are countless. There are innumerable itineraries to be covered, full of cultural manifestation and rich in flavors.

Without speaking about the popular parties, archaeological and ecological attractive of the region. It is the only tropical region of the planet that is not affected by terrorism or natural disasters and has great easiness of access due to the innumerable international airports that daily receive a great number of flights.

Real estate

The real estate growth, in Brazilian northeastern, is attracting innumerable investments of foreign constructors, excited about the resources application in the infrastructure to attract tourist, part of this is because of the potential incomes of up to 20% to the year, that come attracting Swedish, American, English, Italian and Spanish for cities as Natal, Fortaleza and Bahia.

The Northeast is the only Brazilian region that possesses nine states, what gives it similar dimensions to France, Italy, United kingdom and Germany together and a Gross Domestic product of $93,6 billion (2004), bigger than the GDP of countries as Chile, the Brazilian Northeast is projected as the opportunities land for those who desire to invest and grow.