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Forestry sector: opportunities and challenges to become a significant driver of development
The Paraguayan forestry sector is in fashion and with good reason. The favorable characteristics of the country, based on its political-economic stability and its climate of high plant productivity, give it significant competitiveness compared to other mature markets, however, with lower yields, such as those of Uruguay or Chile. One of the main natural competitive advantages is that in Paraguay the trees achieve growth at 40-45 cubic meters per year, while in countries like Chile, a maximum of 20 m3/year, and Uruguay between 30 and 35 cubic meters per year. I am going to cite the opportunities, in a specific manner, to concentrate in the following lines on the duties that we have to perform to take advantage of Paraguays forestry potential.
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The beech trees of this forest, surrounded by legends, grow in such an original way that they look like candelabras
• The beech forest of Otzarreta simply seems like a setting rescued from a fairy tale. Located within the Gorbeia Natural Park, specifically on the Biscay slope, this centuries-old forest surprises everyone who visits it. What makes this place truly unique is the peculiar formation of its beech trees, whose branches point vertically towards the sky instead of expanding horizontally.
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Agriculture has a public platform for territorial visualization of smart maps to know the location of pine plantations
With the aim of transforming productive planning in the country, the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (Ministry of Economy), through its National Forestry-Industrial Directorate, announced this week the availability of a high-precision technological tool called Territorial Visualization Application. This digital platform allows investors and producers to analyze, on an updated cartographic basis, the spatial distribution of pine plantations
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The wooden brick that makes construction easier for bricklayers: it insulates from the cold and is placed easily like Lego
Bricks, one of the most traditional elements in construction – a sector of great importance in Spain – are being reinvented thanks to the advancement of technology: they can now be 3D printed and offer better thermal insulation or made with plastic and be more resistant. The latest innovation in this field comes with a wooden block that makes the work of bricklayers easier.
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What is the carob tree for: its use for food, medicine and crafts that few know
• From its pods and wood, everything from food ingredients to products for the chemical and cosmetic industries are obtained. • The carob is one of those trees that many see from a distance without imagining the enormous number of uses it has.
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A scientist felled an almost 5,000-year-old pine tree in 1964 and forced us to rethink how longevity is investigated.
In the summer of 1964, academic work in the mountains of eastern Nevada ended up bringing down, unbeknownst to anyone at the time, one of the longest living beings documented. Prometheus, a Great Basin bristlecone pine that grew near Wheeler Peak, fell with permission from the US Forest Service and later became a symbol of an uncomfortable question: what price is paid to know precisely the age of the natural world.
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Everyone knows the Amazon jungle, but few know about the second lung of planet Earth
In addition to the Amazon, planet Earth guards lesser-known but equally vital jungles, true guardians that maintain balance. When we talk about the great lungs of planet Earth, we immediately think of the Amazon, that immense jungle that seems to have no end and that produces a fundamental part of the oxygen we breathe.
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New study finds African forests emit more carbon than they absorb since 2010
Africa loses its role as a carbon sink: deforestation converts its forests into a net source of CO?, (net balance caused by the loss of forests) annual loss of 106 billion kg of forest biomass.
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A province has just created its own “laboratory” of native trees
With a plan for 2030, it seeks to integrate conservation and production to consolidate a competitive, sustainable and value-added forestry sector.
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