The aim is to provide a standard reference model to be used by public forest owners of cork oak woodlands to sell cork, both on the tree or in cork piles, through public tendering systems in Italy. The documents represent a good practice developed by the Agency Forestas on the basis of its long term experience in cork tendering systems that may be useful for harmonizing cork selling procedures across the country.
Adopting a common protocol for selling cork through tendering procedures in public cork oak woodlands in Sardinia (Italy)
- Category: Cork
- Themes: Profitability
- Position in the value chain: Forestry
- Type: Practice
- Scale: Subnational
- Country: Italy
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- Keywords: Cork, cork oak, cork oak woodlands, public tenders, Quercus suber, state owned forests
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