Plant and seed management

The purpose of the RMK Seed and Plant Management Department is to grow quality forest planting material. Spruce plants and pine seedlings are mainly grown; birch plants are also grown to a lesser extent. The share of other types of leafy trees in the total plant production is less than 1%.

RMK grows plants predominantly in open field nurseries. Yearly, an average of 6 million 4-year-old spruce sets, 5 million 2-year-old pine seedlings and 1 million birch seedlings and other deciduous trees become fit to plant.

The composition of RMK also includes the Tartu Tree Nursery – the oldest nursery in Estonia growing native ornamental plants – which sells trees, bushes, perennials, climbing plants, etc.

RMK owns 60% of the Estonian-Finnish joint company AS Eesti Metsataim, which produces plants at Kilingi-Nõmme for both the Estonian and Finnish state forests.

The field seed and plant management is managed out of Tartu. RMK’s nurseries are located all over Estonia: at Iisaku, Sonda, Haapsalu, Räpina, at Reiu outside Pärnu, at Kullenga outside Rakvere, at Purila outside Rapla, and at Rulli outside Tõrva.

Ornamental plants are grown and sold by RMK’s Tartu Tree Nursery.

Plant and seed management

Metsamajadus

Puidu müük

Taimed-seemned

Jahipidamine

Pärandkultuur

Metsakool