Silvicultural management activities associated with the physical and mechanical properties of Guadua Angustifolia kunth in the municipality of Pitalito

Abstract

In the last two decades, guadua has gain great importance due to the interest that has awaken because of its big environmental economic and social benefits, being a plant species of large longitudinal development and multiple uses such as: House building, windbreaker barrier, light poles, fences, furniture and crafting. Through the realization of this text it’s intended to investigate about the guadua’s silvicultural management located in the town of Pitalito, and then be associated with the results of previous studies from physicalmechanical properties. For that, surveys were designed, which consisted in 33 open-ended and multiplechoice questions, focused on the silvicultural management information that farmers give to the cultivation. Tension and compression strength data that is parallel to the fiber was correlated to the guadua’s silvicultural management of the region, resulting in the information of this management in the stands, that is not enough to determinate as to whether or not affects the final resistance of guadua’s compression and tension. It is concluded in a first approach that the silvicultural management in this region of the country is scarce.