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The reform of the "PAC" in 1992 lead to the alteration of the model of
incentives to farmers with financiai aids being now directly attibuted to the revenue as
compensations per hectare. In this context the regime of afforestation of agricultural
lands is created by the Council through the Regulation 2080/92 establishing a regime of
financiai aids to forest activities in agriculture land. This program has been applied
since 1994.
As an example of the application of this regime there have been established 1050 ha of chestnut stands for wood production in Bragança County between 1994 and 1998.
It should be noticed the importance of this value since land is distributed mainly in the l ha and l to 4 ha size classes. In the same period of time there have been established 6883 ha of chestnut to be managed as forestry and agroforestry systems. There are 40 300 ha of areas with chestnut in Portugal according to the forest inventory of 1995.
Adult stands of high forest have poor representation among the areas mentioned above. Thus, its study is fundamental. In this work we studied a chestnut stand of 3.2 ha located in the Serra da Padrela. This area is communal property and according to the economical objectives indicated by the owners it will be submitted to final felling. We marked ali the trees and evaluated a set of dendrometric variables, that could provide information for the sustained management of the stand.
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Keywords
Chestnut High forest Sustainability Productive potentiality Research Subject Categories::FORESTRY, AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES and LANDSCAPE PLANNING
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Citation
Monteiro, Maria do Loreto; Patrício, Maria Sameiro; Nunes, Luís (2000). Sustained management of a high forest chestnut stand in Serra da Padrela. In Afonso Martins; Ana Luísa Pires (Eds.) Cost G4 Multidisciplinary Chestnut Research, MC Meeting and Workshop Genetic Resources and Silviculture: Book of Abstracts. Vila Real
Publisher
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro