Coqueiro Seco - Economy

Economy

The municipality is rich in oil, and it has the company of Petrosynergy Ltda. as authorized by ANP, Brazil's Oil National Agency, to produce crude oil. Trade is based in small markets, butcher shop and grocery, bakeries and clothing stores; whose products were from Maceió.

The primary sector of the economy is supported in the monoculture of sugar cane and occupies almost all rural area of the municipality. Agriculture is mainly of subsistence, with their participation in the production, area harvested and the economy is not considered representative in the state. The livestock has up been above of agriculture, but without much impact on the Metropolitan Region of Maceio. On the banks of the lagoon there is the fish and extraction of sururu; besides, in some isolated areas of the boards and slopes, highlights are the coconut trees, producing for the food industry, and some of orchard crops such as cashew, mango and jaqueira tree, now called fruit for local consumption.

Close to the village of Cadóz is the Polo Cloroquímico, Chlorine and Chemical Pole of Marechal Deodoro with their industries, refining, polyethylene production; as well as the proximity of Maceió are two appealing to the labour-spot. Access to the council whether the state road AL-101 (south) and BR 316, a federal road, or in a boat on a lake known by the population as simply boat, which is the crossing of the port city to the port of the Levada neighbourhood in Maceió.