Las ayudas públicas a la reforestación privada en Galicia, 1952-1992.

Abstract

From 1952, the Franco’s Government tried to promote the development of afforestation in private forests with public grants to achieve a substantial increase in timber production. However, these first efforts only achieved few results in the whole of Spain and were non-existent in Galicia.
The Government took up this policy with more force with the implementation of the II Development Plan, and with the endorsement of international economic organizations, emphasizing the need to reafforest with fast-growing tree species, highly productive and whose wood was demanded by the market (eucalyptus). This option was renewed and expanded with the Forestry ProductionAct of 1977, in the context of the democratic transition, which had an impact on the need to increase the supply of the large consuming industry (pulpwood and boards) with national timber.