The project aims at strengthening SODEFOR's capacity to restore
parts of the degraded forest through intensifying forestry plantations.
The specific objectives are:
to modernize forestry and to attempt to reverse the existing production
ratio to be in favor of industrial timber;
to establish new plots from remaining old stumps after clear felling trough
appropriate silvicultural practices.
Deux impératifs, aujourd'hui, poussent la Sodefor à rechercher
l'intensification de la reconstitution de la forêt par le teck, l'évolution
du marché de ce produit et le taux de déboisement préoccupant,
environ 150 000 hectares par an. En effet, jusqu'à une date récente,
1990-1994, le prix du bois d'éclaircie du teck ne dépassait guère,
en moyenne, les 6,5 mille FCFA le m3. Actuellement, les prix se sont envolés,
si bien que même les petits bois sont absorbés par ce marché.
Ajoutés à cela les essais de comportement faisant observer que
la révolution du teck peut être réduite sans nuire à
sa qualité, la Sodefor propose ce programme en vue d'opérer le
choix de la production du teck à 45 ans avec un diamètre de l'ordre
de 45 cm et ou 20 ans avec un diamètre de 30 cm.
Au cours de ce projet, les travaux d'intensification de la sylviculture porteront
sur:
The Delegation of Cote d'Ivoire informed that most project
activities have been completed and the project final technical report
and completion report were to be finalized and submitted to the ITTO Secretariat
shortly. The Committee took note of that information and asked the Executing
Agency to submit those reports as soon as possible in order to allow the
Secretariat to report this project as completed during the next Committee
Session.
December 2007
In accordance with the project’s most recent reports
submitted to ITTO in February and August 2007 and the Fifth Project Technical
Committee meeting held in May 2007, progress in project implementation
can be summarized as follows:
A second training of Project technicians has
been conducted by qualified professionals from the National Agriculture
Research Centre of Cote d’Ivoire on silvicultural treatments useful
for the implementation of this project;
78 plots had been established within selected
teak plantations in order to undertake various silvicultural treatments;
All plots established within teak plantations were
monitored to collect data on girth, height and shape of stems for each
tree;
The maintenance of plots has been undertaken before
in order to facilitate the work of collecting data;
The inventory for selection of best suckers thrown
out and the determination of adequate post-harvesting methods have been
undertaken in 36 plots within teak plantations; and
The statistical analysis of inventory data is
in progress.
