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2.1.4 Land use, Ownership, and Land Tenure
The plantations of commercial stands commenced in 1965. Nowadays the FME owns twenty-one (21)
farms which occupy an approximately 25,424.85-hectare area; 11,806.25 hectares is comprised by pine
stands which are distributed in the following towns: Caçador, Lebon Régis, Matos Costa, Passos Maia,
Calmon, Ponte Serrada, Água Doce (Santa Catarina) and Palmas and União da Vitória (Paraná).
Furthermore, the enterprise administrates other sixty-three (63) farms in a leasing regime. Such farms
lie in Caçador, Lebon Régis, Calmon, Palmas, Água Doce (Santa Catarina) and União da Vitória (Paraná).
Aggregated, the farms totalize a 20,298.80 ha-area and pine is planted in 6,298.48 hectare of them.
The FMUs land use and ownership paperwork is duly controlled. The ownership registration of all the
FME own FMUs are duly registered in land registry offices in the towns where they are established. The
paperwork encompasses registration at INCRA, NIRF (property code at the Federal Revenue Office) and
demonstrative of payment of the taxed on rural properties. The farms that are managed under a leasing
regime have contracts and contractual clauses. The copies of every property registration are retained as
well.
2.2 Forest Management Plan
Management Objectives:
The main objective of Adami S/A Madeiras forest management consists in promoting plantation of
productive forests to supply both the group-owned plants and the regional market and simultaneously
respect the biodiversity, soil and ecosystems and focus on improving the population welfare, the society
´ aspirations and the quality of the timber that is produced.
Forest Composition and Rationale for Species Selection:
The system that has been adopted is based on silviculture and management of Pinus taeda. This
aforementioned specie is demonstrably well adapted to the region (it was introduced in the region more
than thirty (30) years ago) and it meets the technical features that are required in the FME industrial
process.
Other potential forest species were tested along the years for the implementation of forest stands;
however, the results obtained so far show that Pinus taeda is the best option.
General Description of Land Management System(s):
The forest management system that has been adopted in based on silviculture and Pinus taeda
management in a eighteen-year cycle.
The main forest management activities are detailed below.
Seedling Production: The seedlings are prepared in the FME own seedling nursery employing genetic
material that had been developed in the FMU. The seedlings are produced in tubettes. Additionally,
precautionary measures are taken in the seedling nursery to prevent pests and diseases.
Soil Preparation: It consists in cleaning the area to remove the vegetal residues. This activity may be
implemented via mechanized or manual mowing.
Control of Ants: Ants cause huge damages to the young plantation; therefore their control is essential
during the soil preparation for subsequent plantation. Such activity is implemented manually.
Subsoiling: It consists in opening lines employing a sub-soiler for the plantation of the seedlings.
Plantation: It consists in the plantation of new stands via manual plantation of seedlings in pre-
determined areas for this purpose.
Re-plantation: It consists in replacing (post-plantation) the seedlings that died or that have been
damaged or that are missing.
Slashing: This activity may be implemented either in a mechanized or in manual manner. Both the
mechanized or manual slashing consist in reducing the higher vegetation to make the implementation of