Journal: It's time to get organized.

It called my attention the petition that many investors are doing in order to obtain a law which controls the expansion of woods in my province. This extremelly necessary activity is stopped nowadays bacause of the lack of an appropiate legislation on the topic and because of the important grade of informality and the lack of organization of the entities incharged.
In addition, one of the main reasons why our woods are not actually in expansion is because the activity is not correctly promoted. The National Forestal Association of Argentina believes that the forestal growing of our country is one of the highest of the entire world and to this optimistic information, we can add that the praices of the lands which can be used in forestation are low in comparision with the neighbouring countries. That is to say that, Argentina can result attractive to the investors of this field.
But beside the benefits that Argentina has as regarding Forestation, in the province of Tucuman the 2,500 hectares of woods that were in existance in the year 2004 have dramatically reduced to 150 hectares in the following year. And luckily the number has raised again to 1,700 hectares during 2007. This are the numbers that the Departament of Forestation has registrated. In the other hand, the producers say that they feel discouraged to get involved in foresation because the national budget for this activity usually arrives late to our province. As a solution, many environmental specialists suggest to make the wooden market an integrated business, because this would make the activity more preofitable and consequently, investors would feel attracted.
It's alarming to know that our province, having the number of possible wooden lands that it actually has, does not autosupply from wood since 20 years ago. In order to compensae this, and the low expansion of the forestal activity, the province has received economic help from the United Nations which was thought to be used in the instalation of a provincial nursery. This project is already in progress and it counts with the support of the Faculty of Agronomics from the National University of Tucuman. The idea is to use this plant nursery to the development of some of our tipical trees that could be then used in forestation. The investors believed that the provincial government is really encouriging the forestation in Tucuman, but the lack of organization unluckily affects the activity a lot.