Feasibility of wood production according to productivity class and rotation criteria

Abstract: The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of forest rotation on the technical and economic feasibility of eucalyptus wood production for charcoal, in different productivity classes. Data came from Eucalyptus stands whose area was stratified into three classes of productivity: h...

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Main Authors: Renato Vinícius Oliveira Castro, Glauciana da Mata Ataíde, Ana Flávia Neves Mendes Castro, Carlos Alberto Araújo Júnior, Rosimeire Cavalcante dos Santos, Lidiomar Soares da Costa
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Language:English
Published: Embrapa Informação Tecnológica 2019-07-01
Series:Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-204X2019000101600&tlng=en
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author Renato Vinícius Oliveira Castro
Glauciana da Mata Ataíde
Ana Flávia Neves Mendes Castro
Carlos Alberto Araújo Júnior
Rosimeire Cavalcante dos Santos
Lidiomar Soares da Costa
author_facet Renato Vinícius Oliveira Castro
Glauciana da Mata Ataíde
Ana Flávia Neves Mendes Castro
Carlos Alberto Araújo Júnior
Rosimeire Cavalcante dos Santos
Lidiomar Soares da Costa
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description Abstract: The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of forest rotation on the technical and economic feasibility of eucalyptus wood production for charcoal, in different productivity classes. Data came from Eucalyptus stands whose area was stratified into three classes of productivity: high, medium, and low. To each class, a different criterion of forest rotation was applied, as follows: age of maximum productivity, economic rotation age, single harvest age, and no technical parameter. Analyses of economic feasibility and production were performed for a 21-year planning horizon. For rotation without a technical parameter, a simulation by the Monte Carlo method was performed. For all rotation criteria, feasibility was observed for high- and medium-productivity classes, and unfeasibility for the low-productivity class. For rotation without a technical parameter, there is no chance for the project to be unfeasible. Wood production viability for charcoal under the studied conditions depends on the productivity class, for any rotation criterion adopted. Rotation criterion influences profitability, whose definition, according to productivity class, contributes to forest production maximization and to the economic return of the project, under the studied conditions.
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spelling doaj.art-7d1057bb0193464ca6437ac2092a43de2022-12-21T21:23:36ZengEmbrapa Informação TecnológicaPesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira1678-39212019-07-015410.1590/s1678-3921.pab2019.v54.00778Feasibility of wood production according to productivity class and rotation criteriaRenato Vinícius Oliveira Castrohttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9018-7793Glauciana da Mata Ataídehttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6897-2154Ana Flávia Neves Mendes Castrohttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7707-1569Carlos Alberto Araújo Júniorhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0909-8633Rosimeire Cavalcante dos Santoshttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4234-3998Lidiomar Soares da Costahttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1663-9514Abstract: The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of forest rotation on the technical and economic feasibility of eucalyptus wood production for charcoal, in different productivity classes. Data came from Eucalyptus stands whose area was stratified into three classes of productivity: high, medium, and low. To each class, a different criterion of forest rotation was applied, as follows: age of maximum productivity, economic rotation age, single harvest age, and no technical parameter. Analyses of economic feasibility and production were performed for a 21-year planning horizon. For rotation without a technical parameter, a simulation by the Monte Carlo method was performed. For all rotation criteria, feasibility was observed for high- and medium-productivity classes, and unfeasibility for the low-productivity class. For rotation without a technical parameter, there is no chance for the project to be unfeasible. Wood production viability for charcoal under the studied conditions depends on the productivity class, for any rotation criterion adopted. Rotation criterion influences profitability, whose definition, according to productivity class, contributes to forest production maximization and to the economic return of the project, under the studied conditions.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-204X2019000101600&tlng=enforest economicsforest planningharvest age
spellingShingle Renato Vinícius Oliveira Castro
Glauciana da Mata Ataíde
Ana Flávia Neves Mendes Castro
Carlos Alberto Araújo Júnior
Rosimeire Cavalcante dos Santos
Lidiomar Soares da Costa
Feasibility of wood production according to productivity class and rotation criteria
Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira
forest economics
forest planning
harvest age
title Feasibility of wood production according to productivity class and rotation criteria
title_full Feasibility of wood production according to productivity class and rotation criteria
title_fullStr Feasibility of wood production according to productivity class and rotation criteria
title_full_unstemmed Feasibility of wood production according to productivity class and rotation criteria
title_short Feasibility of wood production according to productivity class and rotation criteria
title_sort feasibility of wood production according to productivity class and rotation criteria
topic forest economics
forest planning
harvest age
url http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-204X2019000101600&tlng=en
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