This document presents the methodology used by the Extremadura Scientific and Technological Research Centre (CICYTEX) for assessing the quality of piled cork. Once the cork has been stripped from the trees, the planks are arranged in ‘piles’ prior to transportation to the factory. Assessing the cork in these piles is particularly useful in forests with difficult access, where direct assessment on the tree is not viable.
Cork quality assessement on the pile
- Category: Cork
- Themes: Profitability
- Position in the value chain: Harvesting
- Type: Practice
- Scale: Subnational
- Country: Spain
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- Keywords: Cork, cork debarking, cork oak, quality asessment
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