Birch Program
Latvijas Finieris launched the Birch Program in 1996.
Objectives
- To identify the most appropriate species of trees for afforestation of land not in use for agricultural purposes and to explore their growth
- To obtain high quality birch stands and increase their surface
- To promote growing of birch
Cooperation partners
- The Forest Department of The State Forest Service
- The Forest Research Centre Kalsnava
- The Latvian National Forestry Institute Silava
- The Forest Faculty of the Latvian University of Agriculture
- The Latvian Wood Chemistry Institute
- Latvian farmers
- Latvijas valsts mezi
Benefits
- Exemplar birch stands
- Qualitative and quantitative improvements in birch growing
- Obtaining scientific research results in the fields of birch plants selection and birch growing conditions and of the physical and mechanical properties of birch
- Increase of birch planting and forest regeneration
- Green Class
- Establishing the Forest Days tradition, besides Latvia, also in Lithuania
