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Forest to
Furniture
Logging in a
sustainable manner
where
Introduction
Catap in Sofala Province, central Mozambique,
32 km south of the Zambezi River
in Cheringoma District
northwest of Inhamitanga
Village
S18 00 05'' and E35 08' 13''
Concession = 30 000 ha .
EN1 (main road)
traverses the concession
more or less on the
watershed between the
Zangue and the Tissadze
Rivers
3,600 ha area with the
sawmill, living quarters
and
Mphingwe
commercial hospitality
unit
Vegetation a mosaic
Dry lowland deciduous forest
Dry deciduous thicket
Woodland
Operation
Core business
utilization of natural
resources:
felling 2 100 m of
indigenous hardwoods
of various species
principally
Panga-panga, (Partyshout)
Millettia stulhmannii
Taub.
Wild-mango, (Mutondo)
Cordyla africana Lour.
Pod-mahogany,
(Chanfuta)
Afzelia quanzensis Welw.
Planning
BLOCK DEMARCATED
TREE INVENTORY
Felling
- First cut 150 mm, two hand widths,
above ground level
- wedge-shaped for accurate log-fall
- hinge in final cut to prevent kickback
- Log cut into lengths
both end of log and
stump marked with
the same number
Extraction
Maximum recovery of timber
essential!
Traditionally left are second & third grade
log + branchwood, + any dead or severely
damaged trees Recovery increases usable
volume by 20% to 25%.
Mozambique forestry regulations prohibit
logs of bark to bark diameter
lessattractive
than 30
Commercially
cm & length less than
0,8 m being
removed
branchwood
is cut,
dragged
and ramped, awaiting
from the forest
special authority to
move it from the forest
Haulage
Loading the
Adding value
Turnings
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FOREST
RESTORATION
Very high
Furrows
created
in
drag
lines
repaired
The edge scuffled into
the centre with a hoe
and ........
Regeneration
1. Coppice and coppice
management
2. Regeneration from
seed
3. Baton
planting
Coppice
Definition: vegetation
that resprouts after the
trunk has been cut.
Coppice management
is the most successful
and rapid means of
forest restoration
Monitoring
Every stump
visited and the
coppice managed
for three
consecutive years
Felled stumps are
all numbered and
the GPS position
recorded
The extraction
infrastructure of
drag-lines and
Seed
Seed collected throughout the year.
Selection, packaging, storage
important.
Panga-panga & Chanfuta seeds scored
and
soaked for 24 hours before
sowing.
Mutondo fruits have the flesh removed
and
are always planted fresh.
In-field
seeding
Nursery seeding
Plastic bags and seed beds prepared during winter
Seed is sown in from mid-Sept to end Dec
Target is 10 000 bags per year providing the main stock for reforestation
Labour intensive but most successful method of regeneration from seed
Replanting
Each year a reserve of about 4 000
plants is kept back to replace field
mortalities. This is done during the
dry weather with water planting.
The theory being that these plants at
nine months old, having established
a firm root system, have been
hardened and will survive
and able to take full advantage of the
annual rains and really get away.
Baton planting
1 m sections of branchwood cut
and planted around the fell site
from mid October through to end
of December coinciding with the
rising sap.
This has not proved very
successful.
Catap gate
made from sawmill off-cuts
about 1 m high
Catap gate
not only
provides
protection
from
animals but
also offers
partial
shade and
has the
Fire
Community
Good relationship
Community projects
Reforestation
Fire paid services
Bee-keeping
Thatching grass
Bricks
Benefit to the
Meg Coates
Palgrave
Dendrologist
TCT-Catap Cheringoma
Herbarium