The Forest Research Institute advances in projects with Chaco producers
In the Chaco Salon of the Hotel Gualok, in the city of Sáenz Peña, the president of the Institute of Forest Research (IIFA) Carlos Favarón and the engineer Adrián Belizan Theys, director of production and promotion of the IIFA, met with forest producers of the province To update the information on works and projects that the institution has been carrying out
Favarón explained, for example, about topics related to current interests of the IIFA such as: also on how to develop afforestation plans, the way to generate added value to forest by -products, vegetable and activated coal, the deregulation of the coal market, and the stimuli legal legals beyond Law 25.080.The President of the Federation of Associations of Forest Producers of Chaco, Noah Kohn, coincided with the president of the Forestry Association of Castelli, Fabián Ulrich in claiming a good technical support of the Institute so that every producer can clear your doubts. There took the floor the engineer Belizán to imbalance point by point every concern. At the end of the meeting everyone agreed to emphasize that it is imperatively necessary, to diagram a joint work agenda, amending past errors and looking towards a future. In this regard, Favarón synthesized: It is essential
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