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AIR1-CT92-0143
Northern Conifers in Fast Growing Conditions: A Step Towards an Adequate Wood Supply for Industry
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AIR Cluster IX - Forestry
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Biotechnology
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Wood (Lignocellulose)
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Contract No |
AIR1-CT92-0143 |
| Total Cost |
2 687 500 |
| EC Contribution |
1 477 000 |
| Start Date |
01/11/1992 |
| Duration |
36 months |
OBJECTIVE:
The project is focused :
- On four conifers species that are already essential for industry
supply and are expected to spread in plantation in northern EEC
for the future : Norway spruce, Sitka spruce, Douglas fir, larches.
- To productive sites, active silvicultural techniques and short
rotation in order to have attractive economic conditions.
The detailed programme of the project has been built mostly to
complete research work generally conducted by species. It is divided
in five interrelated tasks.
- Breeding and selection : early tests for growth and wood quality,
and introduction of new genetic material.
- Plants and seeds production : indoor seed-orchards, biotechnology
tools, nursery techniques (essentially bulk propagation), physiological
quality of plants.
- Silviculture : ecological requirements, spacing and thinning
demonstration plots, harvesting especially mechanisation.
- Consequences of breeding and silviculture on wood quality and
on ecosystems.
- Cost benefits analysis : this will be done in some different
scenarios, as a synthesis of the project.
The expected results of the project are :
- To get new methodological tools - applicable to different species
and countries : this is mainly the case for early test, physiology
of plants . . ..
- To characterise in different conditions of silviculture, the
level and planning of investment, the volume and technological
characteristic of the products and other impacts (ecological especially).
- To increase collaboration between EEC countries while completing
existing EEC research programmes for their main gap in order to
promote cost-advantage analysis of these production towards extension
services.
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Coordinator
EC Scientific Officer
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