EUCALYPTOLOGICS brings you today as a part of our Global Resource Maps a visual summary of the key Eucalyptus forestry statistics for Brazil by 2008, printable as a 100 x 75 cm poster. Of course, it is quite possible that if you print it, you are doing so on an Eucalyptus pulp based paper sheet, also possibly certified as sustainably produced.
100 years after Edmundo Navarro de Andrade started the first successful industrial scale planting of Eucalyptus at Paulista Railroads, more than 4 billion Eucalyptus trees of over 150 species grow in the different climates of Brazil. Just a handful of them are prevalent but they have become a strategic timber resource of such a magnitude as to make of Brazil an Eucalyptus Agricultural Superpower with a global impact.
3.75 million hectares of highly productive sustainably managed cultivated forests sourcing the majority of industrial timber to supply an expanding pulp and paper industry able to meet domestic demand and participate at once in the export market-oriented economies of Brazilian primary sector. Ordem e Progresso.
Acknowledgements
To ABRAF, Associação Brasileira de Produtores de Florestas Plantadas, for their effort following the motto "Bigger, better, faster" and compiling relevant statistics on Brazilian forestry. To STCP Engenheria and DC10 Comunicação for their effort in producing visually attractive divulgative materials based on sound data treatment. To Edmundo, for daring.
We receive frequent inquiries at EUCALYPTOLOGICS on Eucalyptus being or not possible to propagate from cuttings. And we were running out of examples to show it is very possible. Fortunately the Woodpeckers of Prof. Mário Takao Inoue & Prof. Antonio José de Araujo (SEAA, Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, Paraná) come to our rescue.
00:43 = Seed Orchard plus tree climbing for selective Eucalyptus seed collection.
01:20 =Eucalyptus seed extraction under dry greenhouse cover
01:35 = Production greenhouse, general view… mainly clonal Eucalyptus
01:47 = Select genotypes raised for controlled pollination indoors. Next generation of improved seed in the making.
02:00 = Production greenhouse, Eucalyptus rooted cuttings gaining size
02:20 = Plant stock at Eucalyptus nursery hardening area
02:42 = Automated fertirrigation control devices
02:48 = Depots for highly concentrated fertiliser mix
02:52 = Mechanised tube container filler and sowing machine
02:58 = Individual recyclable tube containers
03:10 = Individual tubes in assembled plant trays ready for filling
03:22 = Tray washer
03:29 =Eucalyptus cutting ready to be rooted
03:34 =Preparation of an Eucalyptus cutting: selection and leaf ablation
03:50 =Mist system for Eucalyptus cuttings to root well (and not rot)
03:56 =Rooting hormone
04:04 = Production greenhouse, Eucalyptus rooted cuttings at initial growth stage
04:16 = Production greenhouse, Eucalyptus rooted cuttings a few days later
04:33 = Hardening area, Eucalyptus rooted cuttings coping with normal weather outdoors
05:05 =Eucalyptus Micropropagation Laboratory
05:21 = A new generation of improved Eucalyptus clones
05:25 =Clonal reafforestation in a harvested Eucalyptus stand
05:32 = Brazilian version of Pottiputkiplanting tool with fertiliser injector for accurate dosage
06:01 = Heavy bulldozer for soil preparation
06:16 = Detail of heavy duty forestry ripper
06:27 = The Woodpeckers
Industrias Klabin do Paraná de Celulose SA (IKPC), better known as KLABIN, is one of the of the Giants of Brazilian Forestry. By the time Navarro de Andrade started industrial scale Eucalyptus cultivation in 1908, Mauricio Klabin started building his first paper mill. By 1934 Klabin acquired Fazenda Monte Alegre, near Tibaji and Telêmaco Borba.Today, this 220,000 hectare estate comprises 55% tree farms and 40% Nature Reserves (Araucaria angustifolia) and one of the largest integrated pulp & paper mills in South America (1.1 million tons paper/year after recent capacity expansion). Its main crops are planted conifers, Pinus taeda and Pinus elliottii, but they cultivate vast acreages of Eucalyptus grandis too. And they grow the Brazilian way: better, faster, cheaper. For Eucalyptus, this means R+D in Genetic Improvement, and a fast way to deploy genetic gains in the field: clonal silviculture.
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