A tool developed by Embrapa Florestas (PR) in partnership with the Associação Paranaense de Empresas de Base Florestal (Apre) enables access, organization and processing of databases on the forestry sector.

The methodology uses different secondary data repositories. The information comes from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); Production of Plant Extraction and Silviculture, from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (PEVS-IBGE); Gross Domestic Product of Municipalities (IBGE); Annual List of Social Information – Rais (MTP); Foreign Trade Statistics (Comex Stat); Yearbooks of the Brazilian Tree Industry (Ibá); and the Gross Value of Agricultural Production, from the Department of Rural Economy, from the Secretary of Agriculture and Supply of Paraná (Deral/Seab).

“The methodology will allow for a better diagnosis of the sector, aiming at forestry planning on a regional and national scale, including municipal detailing depending on the availability of information”, declares José Mauro Paz Moreira, Embrapa researcher and one of the creators of the work.

The “Methodology for accessing and analyzing data from the Brazilian productive chain of planted forests” uses a set of computerized procedures based on routines developed in R, a statistical and graphical programming language with open and free access.