The V Seminar on Silvopastoral Systems began this Thursday 18
With the field activity scheduled for this morning, the V Seminar on SSP will culminate at noon that bianually organizes the agroforestry pole of Cerro Largo.
On the morning of Thursday, September 18, the opening ceremony was held and the first exhibitions in charge of the different panelists began.
“We are subject to increasingly extreme climatic events and therefore we have to look for alternatives to improve that animal and plant productivity that is being threatened by them” raised the Dr. Carolina Viñoles Gil.
“In that sense, silvopastoral systems appear as an excellent opportunity to reconcile production with conservation” He added.
“This definition of what a SSP is already commented by Miguel Sierra in his speech. Deliberate and long -term interaction of trees, cattle and pastures that interact harmoniously by providing the synergy of its components with the aim of maximizing the production of the system in a sustainable way” defined the member of the Agroforestal Pole.
“Deliberate because there is a planned plantation frame that can be 3 to 5 meters between trees in the row, generally 1 or 2 rows. Which cannot be missing in these systems are wide alleys of more than 18 meters” reported. “They are long -term because these systems are focused on the production of solid wood, free of knots, with a durability of 15 years. This implies that we have to be thinking that 15 -year -old Forest Turn will imply being aware of a number of silvicultural handling that we have to perform.” said. “That they interact synergisticly because we do not want the tree, pasture and cattle to be synergistically running only the first years, we want the 15 years to interact in a synergistic way.” He stressed. “To maximize system production because we just believe that the natural field, which has a lot to give a lot, has to be handled with a forage allocation for the right animal. That is the basis of our production system so that it is just sustainable” broad.
That the tree does not kill the grass and that the cattle do not kill the tree
“The slogan is that the tree, as Pepe Dutra says-president of the Uruguayan Society of Silvopastoreo-do not kill the grass but that the cattle do not kill the tree that we have experiences of that type too” Carolina Viñoles argued.
“José presented us with an amount of information about these systems, but in Uruguay, particularly the knowledge generated in these systems has begun to be generated from 5 years with plantation” accurate. “We are interested in knowing what happens from the plantation for these synergies and those negative effects, which we have to know them because we have to present the whole panorama when we are working in a system, particularly a new system such as these SSP” He explained.
“We wanted to know what the interactions are between the 3 main components of these systems- the tree, the pasture and the cattle- in young SSP with two different densities of trees. For this we evaluate the tree component, the response of the natural field, the animal productivity in young SSP hectare compared to a pastizal in full sun ” Dr. Carolina Viñoles said in part of her exhibition that took place in one of the sheds of the convents premises.
