Colombia represents for the businessmen of the forest sector a great opportunity in Reforestation, centers of investigation and development for the case of companies of seedbeds and species with high margins of profit and low biological cycles.

The Forest sector in Colombia offers the following advantages:
 

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• 17 million suitable hectares for reforestation distributed in several altitudinal floors. Nowadays only there is used 1,5 % of the forest potential by forest plantations in 350.000 hectares.
• Technological Packages for the cultivation of several species like pines (P. maximinoi, P. tecunumanii) and Eucalyptuses for the production of flesh, industries of aserrío, construction, activated coal and boards; Teak, coffee Walnut and Acacia Mangium for the wood of aserrío and the Melina for plywoods and other uses.
• Photosynthesis all the year for location in the tropical zone where it exists a high production of biomass, performances of species higher and more short biological cycles, in case of the Eucalyptus performances can be achieved of up to 30 (m3 / has / year) by a shift of 8 years. The climatic advantages allow to establish plantations of diverse species of pines in the Andean high zone, Pinus caribea in the Orinoquia, Eucaliptus grandis in the average Andean zone and Teak in the low tropical zone.
• Important biotechnological and genetic development that has allowed to consolidate a base of production of germoplasma forest [1] of high quality with capacity of production of vegetable material.
• Tributary and incentive Benefits between where it can be find the exemption of the tax of revenue to the utilization of new forest plantations and the Certificate of Forest Incentive (CIF).

• Antioquia - Medellín
• Región Orinoquía
• Triángulo del Café
• Región Caribe y Alto Magdalena

• Timberland Holdings: The company of forest exploitation, MS Timberland Holdings, property of the forest Swedish bottom The Forest Company (90 %) and Ecuadoran Agglomerates Cotopaxi (10 %) bought a forest of more than 30 years of cultivated field to Colombian Cypresses.