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Production of Scots pine grafts for the seed orchard to be established in Utajärvi

Mäntyvartteet Utajärvi

The aim of the project is produce Scots pine grafts for the seed orchard to be established in Utajärvi.

The achievements of Luke's tree breeding and seed orchard project, which is carried out as a statutory service, are exported to operational forestry through seed orchards. Seed orchards shall be established in accordance with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry's seed orchard programme. Plus trees found to be the best on the basis of progeny testing shall be selected for the orchards and their reproduction and production shall be carried out by grafting. Seed orchards are used to create genetically high-grade seed to serve the future needs of nurseries and direct seeding.