Hernán Muñoz Bernal, national president of PymeMad, praised the statements made by the Minister of Agriculture, Jaime Campos, regarding the forestry promotion bill being prepared for 2027, and stated that the instrument should prioritize small and medium-sized owners and industrial players in the sector.

PymeMad took note of the announcement made by the Minister of Agriculture, Jaime Campos, on the programMesa Central de Tele13 Radio, where he confirmed that the Government is preparing a forestry promotion bill whose proposal would be finalized in 2027. The initiative, led by a technical commission headed by Fernando Raga, seeks to replace DL 701, which ceased to operate in 2012.

"We value Minister Campos's statements. His diagnosis is accurate, and we share the view that the new law must respond to 21st-century Chile, not the Chile of the 1970s," stated Muñoz Bernal. The union leader warned that urgency allows no delays: according to the Forestry Institute (INFOR), 169 sawmills closed between 2019 and 2024, and the union projects that another 100 could close in the next five years if immediate measures are not adopted.

The national president argued that the project's focus "should be on incentives for afforestation by small and medium-sized owners and on productive chain integration, so that timber supplies local SMEs and drives higher added value, such as industrialized wood construction." He recalled that 99% of woodworking SMEs work with Radiata Pine and that each SME sawmill supports about 150 direct and indirect jobs.

PymeMad's proposal reaffirms the union's commitment to a modern forestry policy that places SMEs and the territory at the core of the sector, projecting Chile once again as a global benchmark in the wood industry.