One of the most important achievements of 2019 in the area of sustainable forest management for the State of Chiapas was the development of a system of biometric models as a silvicultural tool for the management of forests with timber potential.

This system consists of a series of equations derived from the trunk analysis, which allow to perform reliable estimates of the volumetric stock of the forests of the state of Chiapas.

The results of this project include the following equations:

• 120 volume rates
• 40 product distribution
• 40 profile functions
• 10 site index

This biometric system establishes a solid scientific basis for taking advantage of  sustainable management of the most economically important species, placing Chiapas within the states with the greatest potential of timber production in Mexico, in addition to contributing to the design, formulation, execution, evaluation, and monitoring of forest management programs of communities and state properties.