SCA’s planting work in Latvia started in spring 2020, when SCA needed to move 100,000 seedlings from Estonia to Latvia. The planting continued in the autumn. This year, SCA has already planted over 800,000 seedlings.
“During one year we have plated over 1 million seedlings. Most of them are spruce seedlings from SCA, so called SuperPot which is a bigger seedling suitable for ground with a lot of grass. We have also planted some pine, birch and black alder, which we bought from other countries to get the right kind of seedlings,” says Edgars Birks, department manager forestry, SCA in Latvia.
“We plant in such soils that the best quality, where we know the trees will grow well. If that land is of poor quality we leave them for natural renewal. In fertile ground we will have spruce plantation where in 15 years we will get 150 m3 per hectare,” says Edgars.
Afforestation of agricultural land, bush land or degraded forest stand is one of SCA’s environmental targets in Latvia for 2021.
All planting work is carried out by local service providers. Since planting is the most important part of forestry work, SCA place great emphasis on the inspections of this work.
