The 5th edition of Expoforest, the world’s largest dynamic forestry fair, will be held in the city of Guatapará, in the Ribeirão Preto region and within one of the main forestry centers of São Paulo. São Paulo state has an area of 1.252 million hectares with planted forests. The main genus of commercial trees are eucalyptus (981 thousand ha), pine (151 thousand ha) and rubber tree (120 thousand ha).
São Paulo is the second state with the largest area of planted forests, only behind to Minas Gerais state. “When we talk about job creation, the São Paulo forestry sector is responsible for approximately 150,000 direct and indirect jobs, according to the Ministry of Labor”, explains the forestry engineer and executive director of Florestar São Paulo, Fernanda Abilio.
Manoel Browne, director of Institutional, Governmental and Community Relations at Bracell, a company associated to Florestar, recently assumed the presidency of the association’s Board of Directors for the 2023/2024 biennium. He points out that: “the planted tree sector makes a great contribution to the country, from job creation to economy boosting. But there is still room for the sector to significantly contribute to expanding benefits within the ESG agenda. We are going to work to ensure that the Association plays a leading role in the state of São Paulo for this positive agenda”, concludes Browne.
