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In 2014, more than 27 million plants
of different species of Eucalyptus
were shipped, primarily from the
species E. grandis and E. dunnii.
San Francisco Nursery
Production area 50,575 m2
Personnel involved: 135 people
Quantity of plants shipped:
19.1 million seedlings, (E. grandis, E. dun-
nii).
Santana Nursery
Production area: 55,050 M2 Personnel
involved: 120 people.
Quantity of plants shipped:
7.8 million seedlings of E. dunnii.
Micropropagation Laboratory (ML)
The ML has two main objectives. Firstly,
it seeks to reduce the time required
to obtain mother plants from new
clones and thus begin their operational
production in the shortest possible time.
Secondly, it aims to physiologically
rejuvenate the mother plants to increase
the rooting percentage of the cuttings
that they produce.
By starting the pre-multiplication process
for the most promising clones in the lab
early, we have reached a point where
the mother plants of all new clones
incorporated operationally come from
the same source.
RICARDO METHOL
Technical Development and PlanningManager
The achievements made
through our
Genetic Improvement
Programme have been
significant.
This has been key to
the increase in terms of
cellulose per hectare,
which has almost doubled
since we started our
programme almost 25
years ago.