hare UNOS 500 years in Riga - Latvia will decorate the first Christmas tree. Since then the tradition has been covering the world and now hundreds of millions of trees decorate homes and streets in nearly every corner of the planet.
cultivation and production of Christmas trees is an important source of income in rural areas in temperate zones. In Spain sold 2 million units per year, mostly species nordmanniana Abies and Picea excelsa . The main production areas are Catalonia, Navarra and the Basque Country.
In the U.S. there are approximately 350 million Christmas trees grown on some 15,000 farms cover about 140,000 hectares. Each year between 25 and 30 million trees are sold in the U.S. employing over 100,000 people.
The state of Oregon in the north is where the crop is more important, occupying about 67,000 hectares and accounts for over U.S. $ 100 million in sales. 97% of the cultivated trees belong to two species: Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii ) and the Noble Fir (Abies procera ). Other cultivated species are Abies balsamifera, Abies fraseri, Pinus sylvestris, Pinus virginiana and Pinus strobus . Moreover, in recent times, research is underway for the introduction of other fir species, mainly from the area of \u200b\u200bAnatolia and the Caucasus (Turkey) as Abies nordmanniana subsp. nordmanniana or Abies nordmanniana subsp. equi-Trojani.
see some production areas in Oregon Christmas trees in Google Maps
snowline farm - Oregon ..//.. Elze Tree Farm - Oregon ..//.. Christmas Mountain Choose and Cut - Oregon
After holiday trees are harvested and replanted in the gardens of the houses while the rest is collected by one of 4,000 collection programs existing in the country. The trees collected for composting besides, are also widely used in the creation and restoration of habitats for fish in lakes and rivers, in the recovery of dunes and coastal areas and even as a cover for parks, playgrounds and gardens.
The need to market and distribute 25-30 million Christmas trees at least three weeks, equivalent to the sale and delivery of 1 to 1.5 million trees a day, nearly 1,000 daily average per farm. ; This concentration of work made since the 1980's larger farms began using helicopters to harvest, transport meeting and even trees. Helicopters decrease the amount of time between harvesting and marketing, reducing it to two weeks to just three days.
More information:
- Wikipedia: Growing Tree Christmas
- National Christmas Tree Association (NCTA) - U.S. Photo
- New York Times on Christmas árboels harvest in Oregon (*) Previously
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