The grouping of timber marketing and forest management, keys to the forestry sector
The information day that brought together associations and forest owners from the regions of northern Galicia in Cedeira ended with a positive outcome. The meeting, aimed at presenting the aid that the Ministry of the Rural Environment has called to support forestry associations, aroused significant interest in the sector, so in Cedeira the vast majority of wood producers' associations (Promas) from the north were present
The meeting, organized by the Galicia Forestry Association with the sponsorship of the Rural Environment Ministry, had the collaboration of the Cedeira Wood Producers Association and the Viveiro Wood Producers Association. The meeting made it possible to verify that the Promas and forestry associations share a common idea: the need to strengthen the grouping of wood marketing and forest management.
The General Director of Forest Planning and Planning, José Luis Chan, and the head of the Coruña Forest Service, Iñaki Bergaretxe, took part in the meeting in Cedeira, who resolved all the doubts of the associations of wood producers about the different lines of assistance called for.
Working together in the forest is presented as the way to increase the profitability of wood cutting, as well as to promote good practices in exploitation. Associations of owners are willing to invest in infrastructure, such as wood loaders or scales, as well as in personnel and technical equipment to improve forest management and to contract the exploitation and joint marketing of wood.
For that reason, the aid that Medio Rural has called for is well received by the Promas, because for the first time they have a line of support for the provision of services to forest owners, which will undoubtedly favor a new impetus to forest associationism in the north of Galicia
In the future, the associations of wood producers also value as a possibility to take into account the creation of joint management groups in the forest, a figure that would allow an optimized forest management, overcoming the difficulties caused by the smallholding.
The president of the AFG, Antonio Rigueiro offered the Promas and the forestry associations of the northern regions of Galicia all the technical support they need to process the requests for these aid lines.
Context
The regions of Ferrolterra, Ortegal and Mariña Lucense make up the main area of forest exploitation in Galicia. Together, they cut around 3 million cubic meters of eucalyptus a year, more than half of all the eucalyptus extracted annually from the Galician forests.
