Joana Rodrigues

Agricultura e Mar announced the public presentation of the RN21 Integrated Project, on 10 October, at the United Resins facilities in Figueira da Foz, attended by the Minister for the Environment and Climate Action, Duarte Cordeiro.

The weekly newspaper Reconquista reported that the Recovery and Resilience Plan is making more than 33 million euros available to the resin sector, under Component 12 – Promotion of the Sustainable Bioeconomy.

The weekly newspaper Reconquista ran a feature on the pilot project under way in the parish of Isna, in the municipality of Oleiros, which could bring resin tapping back to a region with a long tradition in this activity.

The Recuperar Portugal mission structure highlighted the resin tapping trials in Oleiros, in the district of Castelo Branco, as an example of the Recovery and Resilience Plan’s investment in the national bioeconomy.

Agroportal published, based on the Lusa news agency, the trials assessing the viability of resin tapping in a pine stand in the parish of Isna, Oleiros, within the RN21 Integrated Project.

Diário Digital Castelo Branco reported on the tests that CoLAB ForestWISE is conducting to assess the commercial viability of resin tapping in the Oleiros pine forest, within the RN21 Integrated Project.

Jornal de Leiria ran a feature on the RN21 Integrated Project – Innovation in the Natural Resin Value Chain to Strengthen the National Bioeconomy, the consortium of 37 entities from across Portugal that sets out to modernise and add value…

The Municipality of Oleiros announced that a pine stand in the parish of Isna is serving as a laboratory to test the viability of resin tapping, an activity that thrived in the municipality until the early 1980s.