Para state remains Brazil’s major timber producer
Jul 08, 2010. In 2009, the total tropical roundwood harvest in Para was 6.5 million cubic metres. The total revenue collected by the Para state from logging was R$2.1 billion ($1.2 billion), about half of country’s gross revenue of the whole timber industry in 2009 was R$4.94 billion ($2.8 billion).
Jul 08, 2010. /Lesprom Network/. In 2009, the total tropical roundwood harvest in Para was 6.5 million cubic metres. The total revenue collected by the Para state from logging was R$2.1 billion ($1.2 billion), about half of country’s gross revenue of the whole timber industry in 2009 was R$4.94 billion ($2.8 billion). Para was also the biggest roundwood consumer (46%), followed by Mato Grosso (28%) and Rondonia (16%), ITTO reported.
In 2009, Para produced 2.5 million cubic metres of logs accounting for nearly half of the total log volume (5.8 million cubic metres) produced in the Brazilian Amazon. The second biggest log producing state was Mato Grosso with 1.7 million cubic metres.
Across the Amazon region, over a thousand timber companies generated 203,701 direct and indirect jobs, out of which 92,423 were in Para.