The Importance of Industrial Forest Plantations

The first chapter of this book originally covered the definition of afforestation areas, industrial forests and industrial forest plantations. It historically cited the different attempts to satisfy the opinions with several international organizations involved and with many participants and placed the evolution of the term forest plantation within the context. Facts and data are also provided to explain changes in the roles that forest plantations have played over the years. Several comprehensive statistics are included to emphasize the importance and advantages of that extension. This chapter also introduces important future trends leading to the necessity of the forest planning and forest management methods covered in this book. These tools can overcome the challenges of more complex and conflicting social, economic and environmental goals that the forestry department faces. While advancing new technologies is often challenged, it is still important to recognize that trees are one of the most effective ways to produce demanding materials with few side effects. The basic principle of this assertion is that as a renewable organism, the synthesis of carbon promoted by sunlight, the sustainable use of plantations reduces the impact on other natural resources and fossil fuels. In addition, the conflict between plantations and natural forests has diminished, and the complementarity and compatibility of wild primeval forests in many different landscapes and local environments are lost.

One of the most common objectives of afforestation is forestry. Forests are very important to maintain the ecological balance on the earth. Most of our planets are forest coverings. However, these have declined rapidly since the beginning of the industrial era. Forests grow naturally, but in order to compensate for losses from deforestation, we must contribute to afforestation. Tree planting has been completed for this purpose. Forests can grow fast with the help of farms

Plantation is ecologically always a young forest. Normally, trees planted in plantations are harvested from 10 to 60 years later. In rare cases it will be 120 years. This means that forests produced by plantations do not include typical ancient growing natural forest ecosystems, soil or wildlife growth types. The most surprising thing is that there are no rotten dead trees, an important part of the natural forest ecosystem. In the 1970s, Brazil began to establish intensive management with high yields of short wheel plantations. These types of plantations are sometimes referred to as Fastwood Plantations or Fiber Farms and are usually managed in a short period of time from 5 to 15 years. They are becoming more common in South America, Asia and elsewhere. The environmental and social impacts of such farms are controversial to them. For example, in Indonesia, a large multinational pulp company harvests a large area of ​​natural forest regardless of regeneration.

We actively manage industrial farms for commercial production of forest products. Industrial farms are usually large scale. Individual blocks are usually average age, usually 1 or 2 years old. These species are exotic or indigenous. Plants used for planting are often genetically modified to obtain desired traits such as growth and resistance to pests and general diseases as well as specific traits such as in the case of wood species, large amounts of timber production and stems . Forest genetic resources are the basis of genetic change. Selected individuals raised in the seed garden are good sources of seed development for proper planting materials