AGROPINE - International Meeting on Mediterranean Stone Pine for Agroforestry| Valladolid

UNAC - União da Floresta Mediterrânica | 18 . 11 . 2011

Pine nut markets: Portuguese perspective

Agenda

1. UNAC in a nutshell2. Stone pine sector overview3. UNAC stone pine initiatives4. Stone pine cone 2010/2011 campaign

UNAC – União da Floresta Mediterrânica

¨ Coordination of strategies, common voice to society and public administration

¨ Technical knowledge – permanent staff of 15 technicians: forest engineers, GIS experts, biologists

¨ 7 forest-owners organisations¨ 26% of the national certified forest area:

¤ FSC – 83.223 ha¤ PEFC – 15.530 ha (waiting for the certificate emission)

UNAC – União da Floresta Mediterrânica

¨ 700.000 hectares of rural land (agro-forestry)

¨ Global forest investment of 40 Million Euros through the Rural Development Program (2007-2010)

¨ Strong capacity on Forest Fire Defense – 89 fire prevention brigades (from the Forest Owner’s Organizations and from the Forest Owner’s)

Stone pine sector overview

¨ Portugal has 130.386 hectares of stone pine (AFN, 2010);

¨ The stone pine was the forest specie that in the period between the last two National Forest Inventory - a period of approximately 10 years (1995-2006), had the highest area increase in absolute and relative value (+68 %, about 52.000 ha).

Stone pine sector overview

¨ Dissemination of the grafting techniques¨ Increase of the mechanical harvesting¨ High investments by forest producers in afforestation and

forest management with stone pine¨ Main export is the cone pine (and not the pine nut)

Stone pine sector overview

¨ Average global pine cone production of around 84.000 ton/year (but last year was much higher)

¨ Profit rate results from Cone and Pine nut sampling:¤ Average pine cone profit rate (pine cone – pine nut shell) =

20,5%¤ Average pine nut profit rate (pine cone – pine nut) = 4%¤ Average pine nut productivity:n Viable – 89,4%n Dry – 8,9%n Unviable – 3,2%

Stone pine sector overview

¨ 1st Detection of Leptoglossus occidentalis by INRB (October 2010) – reported in several places in Portugal

¨ Establishment of a national survey program (AFN-INRB-UNAC)

¨ Research on the life cycle biology¨ No signs of any evidence of loss production

Stone pine sector overview

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Stone pine sector overview

¨ Pine nuts exports (ton)

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Stone pine sector overview

¨ Pine nuts exports (€)

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Stone pine sector overview

¨ Pine nuts exports (€/kg)

Spain (12,85 €/kg)

Italy (22,74 €/kg

UNAC Stone pine initiatives

¨ Survey at the stone pine cone commercialization:¤ Information relevant to the characterization of the stone

pine sector, allowing a greater knowledge of the market among the forest producers

¤ Get an overview of market trends and prices of the cone in each campaign

¤ Knowledge of the marketing process

UNAC Stone pine initiatives

¨ Program for the Enhancement of the Stone Pine Cone / Pine Nuts Sector¤ Objective 1 – Improving the market information¤ Objective 2 – Improving the sector performance¤ Objective 3 – Promotion and improvement of Pine nut

as a Regional Product¤ Objective 4 – Knowledge and results dissemination¤ Budget – 137.809 € (to be initiated in January 2012)

Stone pine cone campaign 2010/2011

Survey results

¨ High cone production in the 2010/2011campaign

¨ Strong presence of Italian and Spanish buyers¨ Greater police involvement in the cone pine

theft controlling

Survey results

¨ Answers¨ 18,5% - direct sell at the tree¨ 81,5% - sell after the harvesting (weighing)

¨ Harvesting by the forest producer – 59%¨ Manual Harvesting – 90%¨ Average selling price (weighing) - 0,56 €/kg

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