Rio de Janeiro – Brazil has 9.85 million hectares of planted forests, with eucalyptus accounting for 75.2% and pine for 20.6%, according to the Survey of Extractive Agriculture and Silviculture (PEVS), shown this Thursday (20) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Planted forests are concentrated in the south and southeast regions, which accounted for, respectively, 36.1% and 25.4% of the value of total production.
Forestry output rose 3.4% in value, reaching BRL 19.1 billion (USD 4.84 billion) in 2017. From this total, BRL 14.8 billion (USD 3.75 billion) came from silviculture, a 5% increase over 2016. Vegetal extraction generated BRL 4.3 billion (USD 1.09 billion), or 22.7% of the total, a decline of 1.9%. Wood products accounted for 90%, in value, of the country’s total forestry production.
Translated by Sérgio Kakitani
