The 1st Forest Symposium of Santa Fe focused the debate on forests, plantations and carbon as a competitiveness attribute for production

2025-09-29 -

With the participation of public institutions, producers, companies, researchers and referents of the sector, it was developed at the Inta Oliveros Agricultural Experimental Station, the 1st Forest Symposium of Santa Fe, a meeting that opened the debate on the present and opportunities of the forestry sector in the province.

The Symposium Agenda included presentations on Santa Fe forest potential, national lines of work in native and cultivated forests, and carbon as an attribute of differentiation and competitiveness for production. Local experiences linked to the management of forests with integrated livestock (MBGI), carbon capture projects with native species were shared, and cases of companies in the region and industry were released Foresto-industrial. The day also included an exchange plenary and a field exit to learn Seeing these fruits. pride. Not only because the day exceeded expectations, but mainly because it was the result of the team work of many sectors. By its part, Francisco Cardozo, forest referent in INTA Santa Fe, stressed that forest development cannot be done individually. We need the public sector to set policies, that science provides technology, that producers integrate the activity in their fields and that the industry is present. Only together you can think of a sustainable system in the economic, environmental and social. The provincial director of forests and protected areas of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Luciana Manelli, stressed that ?80% of the forests that the province has are yellow category, which means that most producers can present forest management projects with integrated livestock. This allows you to keep the mountain in foot, mitigate the climate change, mitigate the climate change, mitigate the climate change, mitigate the climate change, mitigate the climate change, Generate a livestock production with added value. ? These trials show that we have enormous potential to produce wood and environmental services in soils that are underutilized today or have productive limitations, he said. The day closed with a participatory workshop, where barriers and incentives were analyzed for the growth of the sector in Santa Fe. The contributions of the attendees will be systematized and will be presented in a report with return to the participants. With this first edition, the symposium was consolidated as a symposium Meeting space, debate and collective construction to strengthen the forest-industrial chain and position Santa Fe on the path of sustainable forest development.