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www.utga.ug UTGA AGM DATE;Tuesday 26/3/2013 VENUE: City Royal Hotel TIME: 7am to 1pm Please keep time UTGA NEWS 18th March 2013 UTGA FOREST DAY IN MPIGI Growers Discuss Utilisation of Thinning Using a sulky to extract wood from the forest These planks of wood don’t have to be isolated as wastage The conversion contractor talks to planters about the details of the operation U TGA/SPGS invited Clients and Growers to participate at a demonstration forest day for “Utilisation of Thinnings” at the plantation of Mr. Robert Bariho in Mpigi. The Sulky The first stop was to look at extraction equipment (log sulky) working on the sloping terrain in the plantation. To improve on the The woodmiser cuts of the top efficiency for extraction the Growers will need to go over to mechanised methods of extraction already at 2nd thinnings. The logs are heavy and a large number of workers are needed to complete the job in a time efficient manner. Several of the Growers have shown an interest in the sulky and since the equipment can be produced locally here in Uganda, it is anticipated that they will become a common tool in most forest harvesting operations in the near future. The Woodmiser The second stop of the day was at the sawmill site in the forest Continued to page 3 NFA meeting with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) O n 5th March,2013 UTGA joined Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in an urgent meeting called at NFA headquarters with the view of finding ways and means of meeting goals set to be achieved.According to the authority “We cannot continue to work in isolation and so we need to bridge the gap between us and the private sector”. The major objective was to have an open dialogue with Civil Society Organizations and get views on how to galvanise the forestry sector by finding ways to tackle encroachment, have the ban on land allocations lifted and carry out boundary demarcation. The committee to handle this was led by Mr. Ponsiano Besesa and Hon. David Ebongo who sit on the NFA Board. It was agreed that as part of information sharing, the report findings be shared with the participants so as to gauge any ligation prospects. There is need for a pool of technical and financial assistance and NFA was advised to name an advocacy officer who would be the link with other organizations. The committee was tasked to approach other CSOs and to also approach the Parliamentary Natural Resources Committee for guidance on policy. The next meeting is tentatively scheduled for 26th/March/2013. World Forestry Day T he concept of having a World Forestry Day (WFD) originated at the 23rd General Assembly of the European Confederation of Agriculture in 1971. WFD is one of the world’s leading global platforms for people with an interest in forests and climate change to share their views and work together A forest, which we usually think of in terms of trees, is in fact a complex, living community. Beneath the forest canopy dwell interdependent populations of plants and animals, while the soil that forms the forest floor contains a large variety of invertebrates, bacteria and fungi which play an essential role in cycling nutrients in the soil and the forest. Let´s celebrate the World Forestry Day on Thursday, 21st of March, this day commemorates the contribution and value of forests and forestry to the community. Continued from last week In case of a fire NOTICE UTGA Annual General Meeting 2013 EŽƟĐĞŝƐŚĞƌĞďLJŐŝǀĞŶƚŚĂƚƚŚĞhŐĂŶĚĂdŝŵďĞƌ'ƌŽǁĞƌƐƐƐŽĐŝĂƟŽŶǁŝůůŚŽůĚŝƚƐ ŶŶƵĂů'ĞŶĞƌĂůDĞĞƟŶŐ;'DͿŽŶTuesday, 26th March, 2013 Ăƚ City Royal Hotel Bugolobi, Kampala ƐƚĂƌƟŶŐĂƚ07:30am ƵƉƚŽ 01:10pm. dŚĞŐĞŶĚĂŽĨƚŚĞŵĞĞƟŶŐŝƐĂƐĨŽůůŽǁƐ͗ ϭ͘ WƌĂLJĞƌĂŶĚĂĚŽƉƟŽŶŽĨĂŐĞŶĚĂ Ϯ͘ ŽŵŵƵŶŝĐĂƟŽŶĂŶĚŝŶƚƌŽĚƵĐƚŽƌLJƌĞŵĂƌŬƐĨƌŽŵƚŚĞŚĂŝƌ ϯ͘ ZĞǀŝĞǁŽĨϮϬϭϮ'DDŝŶƵƚĞƐĂŶĚDĂƩĞƌƐƌŝƐŝŶŐ ϰ͘ WƌĞƐĞŶƚĂƟŽŶŽĨϮϬϭϮŶŶƵĂůZĞƉŽƌƚ ϱ͘ WƌĞƐĞŶƚĂƟŽŶŽĨϮϬϭϯĐƟǀŝƚLJtŽƌŬWůĂŶ ϲ͘ WƌĞƐĞŶƚĂƟŽŶŽĨƚŚĞdƌĞĂƐƵƌĞƌ͛ƐZĞƉŽƌƚŽŶϮϬϭϮƵĚŝƚĞĚĐĐŽƵŶƚƐĂŶĚ hd'ƵĚŐĞƚĨŽƌϮϬϭϯ ϳ͘ 'ĞŶĞƌĂůƌĞĂĐƟŽŶƐƚŽƚŚĞƉƌĞƐĞŶƚĂƟŽŶƐ ϴ͘ ƉƉŽŝŶƚŵĞŶƚŽĨƵĚŝƚŽƌƐďLJƚŚĞ'ĞŶĞƌĂůƐƐĞŵďůLJ ϵ͘ ůĞĐƟŽŶŽĨƚŚĞŽĂƌĚKĨŝƌĞĐƚŽƌƐ ϭϬ͘ K ĂƚĞĚƚŚŝƐ5thĚĂLJŽĨMarch 2013 By order of Board 'ĞƌǀĂƐĞEĚLJĂŶĂďŽ ^ĞĐƌĞƚĂƌLJʹ'ĞŶĞƌĂůͲhŐĂŶĚĂdŝŵďĞƌ'ƌŽǁĞƌƐƐƐŽĐŝĂƟŽŶ NB: ATTENDANCE IS STRICTLY LIMITED TO THOSE MEMBERS WHO WILL HAVE PAID UP FOR 2013 8 Ensure that employees fight fires in small teams and not alone so that they help and look after each other . Avoid working under power lines for they might short circuit to the ground (through the smoke) without actual contact. Be aware of any fire hazards in the local area eg gas tanks, land mines, wild animals such as buffaloes etc . Always used trained fire fighters for productivity and efficiency . Park your vehicle in a safe spot . Ensure that your instructions are clear so that everybody works safely and towards the same objective. Don’t panic – keep calm and make logical decisions . 9 10 11 12 13 14 UTGA Forest Day In Mpigi Continued from page 1 where a Wood-Mizer LT40 mobile sawmill was converting logs from the second thinning into sawn timber. The forest owner informed the participants that his expectations for returns from the conversion of thinnings into sawn timber had not been met. Many of the logs were of poor quality and the small dimensions required considerable effort and time on the The forest owner, Robert Bariho saw bench to produce explains his findings to Members a single piece of 2” x 4” of 4 meters length. The harvesting operations were hampered by steep terrain and the movement of heavy logs. Poor seed had produced many trees that were of poor form and many of these logs were sold or even given Conversion in the forest to the furniture makers. The Members made a point that UTGA needed to get active on finding a suitable market for forest products. The Growers got to see the saw mill in operation and saw the amount of waste that was produced in the process. UTGA will make an effort to identify new service providers with equipment that is suitable for the conversion of both thinnings and logs from the final harvest. Logs with bad formation make conversion difficult UTGA growers congregate around the woodmiser Advisory to growers D ear members; In regards to the forestry silvicultural calendar, all those planning to plant this rainy season should by now be done with ground preparations i.e. initial or bush clearing, lining pot, pitting and pre-spraying as well as keeping in touch with your certified nursery operators for quality planting materials. UTGA reminds you to put emphasis on time management when it comes to the implementation of all planned commercial forestry activities. Do your booking from only certified/ recommended nurseries. Visit the UTGA & SPGS websites Good luck, UTGA office. SEED GERMINATION S ome nurseries reported low germination of the PCH seed that was sourced from the Brazil. A team from SPGS & UTGA set out to investigate and an index of possible causes was compiled and it included; poor watering regimes (watering frequency and quantity), sowing omissions, deep sowing depth, un-shaded beds, early sorting and the use of untrained nursery staff (notably in the new nurseries).To avoid such losses, it is recommended that all nursery operators should enroll and attend the UTGA/SPGS-organized nursery management courses that are available on the SPGS website. UTGA Members can contact the office to book their places. GROWERS IN KISOMBWA CFR A ll encroachers who have been occupying large tractThe UTGA office would like to urge and strongly encourage all growers in Kisombwa Central Forest Reserve in Mubende to use this chance to plant as much as they can. The NFA has assured us that they have 24hr police presence on the ground in the CFR. TESTIMONIAL GIS Forestry & Database Development T UTGA Programmes Officer Irene explains to the Rwandans UTGA HOSTS VISITORS FROM RWANDA O n Tuesday, 19th February, 2013 a team from Rwanda visited UTGA offices to get ideas on how to establish a similar organisation back home in Rwanda to be called- “Rwanda Wood Energy Growers (RWEGO)”. They wanted to get information on how they can form the association and how to run operations to serve the membership. The Team explained that they lacked knowledge of many aspects in Commercial Forestry in Rwanda and therefore were here to learn from Uganda through UTGA and other Forestry stakeholders in Uganda. The issues raised about which they needed guidance included, • Plantation establishment • Woodlot establishment • Promotion of a favorable environment for plantations in Rwanda • Sustainable Energy Production through woodlots. They used UTGA as a bench mark for the development of RWEGO in Rwanda. The team was taken to the Ferdsult Plantation in Lugazi where they were shown modern silvicultural practices like lining out, marking for thinning among others. Along the way they were also taken to a nursery owned by a UTGA Member to show them the importance of having a recommended source of good planting material. he GIS and Database development activities initiated in Uganda by UTGA are used for sustainable forest managementin most developed countries and have also been initiated in Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya and South Sudan in the East African region. All forest properties in Norway have a forest management plan and a land cover map showing the extend of each property and the resources available for utilisation. Using modern forest information systems, the plans and maps can easily be updated and the forest owner has a reliable tool for annual operational planning. The information collected for the forest properties is also available to the statistics bureau at the national level, which allows them to present reliable information about the state of forests in the country and give the policy makers a better basis for decision-making. In Zimbabwe Border Timbers Limited (BTL) established a GIS unit to map their 5 plantations covering a total of 48000 hectares. The mapping unit helped BTL to develop proper management plans and provide them with the basis to certify the company with the Forest Stewardship Council adding value to the forest products being sold on the global market. The South Sudan Forest Sector programme was based on cooperation between the Government of Norway and the Government of South Sudan, with implementation by the Norwegian Forestry Group (NFG) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF/GoSS. A forest monitoring office, Land Resource Survey and Information Centre (LRSIC) was established in Juba, to carry out mapping of the resources and develop a database for all of the plantation forests in the newly formed country. Based on the vast experience of data collection and storage, as well as forest management planning, NORSKOG/UTGA have embarked on acquiring information needed for decision making at the property level, but also on a national scale in respect of industrial development. The data on properties and resources will allow UTGA to determine the vicinity and volume of standing timber in the plantations that have been planted over the past decade and form the basis for development of Forest Management Plans in the near future. advertising in UTGA News U The team visits a nursery TGA News is now running adverts at costfriendly rates. Reach hundreds of individuals, groups and companies in and of various fields and professions respectively who have invested in commercial forestry or are doing work that is analogous to forestry T SEED UPDATE Good Timber T he office is in the final stages of agreeing payment terms with the Supplier and import documents are being worked on. Members/buyers will soon be informed of the unit cost price per kilo of seed. Members and prospective buyers are hereby informed to get in touch with the office for bookings. Write to [email protected]. he tree that never had to fight, for sun and sky and air and light, That stood out in the open plain and always got its share of rain, Never became a forest King, but lived and died a scrubby thing. The man who never had to toil, to rise above the common soil, Who never had to win his share of sun and sky and light and air, Never became a manly man, but lived and died as he began. MEMBERS CAN NOW PAY THEIR FEES USING MOBILE MONEY U Good timber does not grow with ease, The stronger wind, the tougher trees, The farther sky, the greater length, The more the storm, the more the strength; By sun and cold, by rains and snows, In tree or man Good Timber grows. Where thickest stands the forest growth, we find the patriarchs of both, And they hold converse with the stars, whose broken branches show the scars, Of many winds and much strife, This is the common law of Life. TGA Members are kindly informed that they can now pay their subscription fees conveniently by sending their outstanding amounts to the office Line 0785-343564. Please include the mobile money charge and in the space set aside for the reason, please fill in your particulars i.e. name/company name. Receipts will then be prepared by the office and will also be issued at all UTGA meetings where staff interface with Members. WORD FROM THE UTGA OFFICE This tree would give good timber Other Guys Theatre Co. TREE GROWERS Nursery Has high quality pine & eucalyptus seedlings at affordable prices, Certified by UTGA/SPGS Contact: David Balumya on 0752-842934/0776842934/ 0702842934 Location: Kiboga UTGA News is a digital newsletter for the Uganda Timber Growers Association. It is published semimonthly (twice a month) to briefly summarize recent forestry-related publications, projects, activities, and news. Do you have news, content, or ideas that you want to share in upcoming newsletters? Please send us your segments on articles and opinions on your organization, partnership, project, group, field stories, successes, challenges, fact sheets, Reminder to Pay 2013 Membership Fees T his is to kindly remind all UTGA Members to Pay their Annual Membership fees for the year 2013. The office would like to appreciate the support and response that it gets from those who made contributions in the running of the Association in 2012 The office also acknowledges all Members who are paid up Your cooperation has helped in the sustainability , development and growth of the Association papers, books, guides, or other resources, upcoming or past events. UTGA News is a great way to reach a wide audience of foresters, natural resource persons, practitioners, scientists and the publics across the Uganda, East Africa and across the globe. If you have friends (of forestry) or anyone you think will benefit if they receive UTGA News, please send their email addresses to [email protected]. Contact: Uganda Timber Growers Association (UTGA) P.O.Box 75063 Kampala. Tel: 256-785-343564 Email: [email protected] Website: www.utga.ug This newsletter is a product of UTGA with support from SPGS and NORSKOG