Forestry is the “business” of growing trees and, as a business, its goals are to maximise yield while minimising inputs.
Whether “yield” takes the form of carbon capture, climate improvement, soil stabilisation, sawn timber or pulp production, bio fuel or high-value timber. PolyGenomX varieties yield more using the same inputs of soil, nutrient, area, water or rainfall, fuel, fencing, transport and forestry labour.
PGX Advantages for Forestry and Forest Production
- Biomass production, with shorter rotations of coppicewood species for fuel and electricity generation
- Enhanced Bioenergy production on impoverished land with species better suited to gasification
- Pulpwood, faster growth, shorter 4-6 year rotation
- Faster production of hardwood and softwood Sawlogs with mature wood properties
- Cabinet wood production (high end value) adapted to marginal land and bioclimate
- Rapid Carbon Capture and Storage
- Adaptation of tree species to environmental stressors, including insect pests and diseases
If a forest is productive in terms of its economic or ecological goals then an equivalent PolyGenomX forest will be up to 30% more productive and therefore more profitable. Click Here for more information on the effects of the PolyGenomX technology on Paulownia.