Project/activity information

The development objectives are to achieve efficient forest regeneration and to establish private enterprises for silvicultural activities. Additional objectives are to institute improved follow-up of forest,plantation establishment and establish sustainable production schedules for plantation species.
The project will contribute to these objectives by training of former employees of ONADEF and CENADEFOR to carry out, in small private enterprises, some of the work required by ONADEF. Three regional training area will be established in forests under direct ONADEF control. ONADEF will be responsible for executing as well as following up on this training.
The training will be conducted in the three pilot areas mentioned above, and will include natural regeneration, nursery techniques, planting, inventory, mapping, pruning and thinning and studies into application of the methods taught. The aim of the project is to train 180 team leaders who will each head a small private silvicultural team in the operating areas.