The article presents an analyses over the land use in the Bragantina Zone (Pará State), oriental portion of the Amazon Region. It indicates that the production system predominant in the region is based on the slash-and-burn process in order to dispose the land. Despite of this predominance agriculture practice without burning (a combination of mulch technologies and better practices). The article analyses the implications related to the adoption of such practices announced as best agricultural technologies and could contributed with the soil quality conservation and the secondary vegetation.
