Latvia karamar ƙasa ce ta Arewacin Turai wacce ke gabas da Denmark akan Tekun Baltic. Tare da taimakon gilashin ƙara girma, ana iya ganin Latvia akan taswira, mai iyaka da Estonia zuwa arewa, Rasha da Belarus a gabas, Lithuania a kudu.

Wannan ƙasa mai rahusa ta fito a matsayin tashar wutar lantarki ta pellet mai ƙarfi ga kishiyar Kanada. Yi la'akari da wannan: A halin yanzu Latvia na samar da tan miliyan 1.4 na pellets na itace a kowace shekara daga yankin daji mai fadin murabba'in kilomita 27,000 kacal. Kanada tana samar da tan miliyan 2 daga gandun daji wanda ya ninka na Latvia sau 115 - kusan kadada miliyan 1.3. A kowace shekara, Latvia na samar da tan 52 na pellet na itace a kowace murabba'in kilomita na gandun daji. Domin Kanada ta dace da wannan, dole ne mu samar da fiye da tan miliyan 160 a shekara!

A cikin Oktoba 2015, na ziyarci Latvia don tarurruka na Hukumar Kula da Pellet ta Turai na tsarin tabbatar da ingancin pellet na ENplus. Ga da yawa daga cikinmu da suka isa da wuri, Didzis Palejs, shugaban ƙungiyar Latvian Biomass Association, ya shirya ziyarar wata shukar pellet mallakar SBE Latvia Ltd. da wuraren ajiyar pellet ɗin katako guda biyu a tashar jiragen ruwa na Riga da Port of Marsrags. Kamfanin samar da pellet Latgran yana amfani da tashar jiragen ruwa na Riga yayin da SBE ke amfani da Marsrags, kimanin kilomita 100 yammacin Riga.

Kamfanin pellet na zamani na SBE yana samar da tan 70,000 na pellet na itace a kowace shekara don masana'antu na Turai da kasuwannin zafi, galibi a Denmark, United Kingdom, Belgium da Netherlands. SBE ta sami ENplus bokan don ingancin pellet kuma yana da bambanci na kasancewa mai samar da pellet na farko a Turai, kuma na biyu kawai a duniya, don samun sabon takaddun dorewa na SBP. SBEs suna amfani da haɗe-haɗe na ragowar katako da kwakwalwan kwamfuta azaman kayan abinci. Masu samar da abinci suna samo itace mai ƙarancin daraja, suna yanka shi kafin isarwa ga SBE.

A cikin shekaru uku da suka gabata, noman pellet na Latvia ya ƙaru daga ɗan ƙasa da tan miliyan 1 zuwa matakin da yake yanzu na tan miliyan 1.4. Akwai tsire-tsire pellet 23 masu girma dabam dabam. Babban mai samarwa shine AS Graanul Invest. Bayan samun Latgran kwanan nan, haɗin gwiwar Graanul na shekara-shekara a yankin Baltic yana da tan miliyan 1.8 ma'ana wannan kamfani ɗaya yana samar da kusan kusan duka Kanada!

Masu kera Latvia a yanzu suna kan gaba a kan diddigin Kanada a kasuwar Burtaniya. A cikin 2014, Kanada ta fitar da tan 899,000 na pellets na itace zuwa Burtaniya, idan aka kwatanta da ton 402,000 daga Latvia. Duk da haka, a cikin 2015, masu samar da Latvia sun rage rata. Tun daga ranar 31 ga Agusta, Kanada ta fitar da tan 734,000 zuwa Burtaniya tare da Latvia ba ta da nisa a kan tan 602,000.

Gandun daji na Latvia suna da albarka tare da haɓakar girma a shekara wanda aka kiyasta ya kai mita 20 cubic. Girbin girbi na shekara yana da kusan murabba'in cubic miliyan 11 kawai, da ƙyar fiye da rabin girma na shekara. Babban nau'in kasuwanci shine spruce, Pine, da Birch.

Latvia tsohuwar ƙasa ce ta Tarayyar Soviet. Ko da yake ’yan Latvia sun kori Soviets a cikin 1991, akwai abubuwan tunasarwa da yawa game da wancan zamanin – munanan gine-ginen gidaje, masana’antu da aka yi watsi da su, sansanonin sojan ruwa, gine-ginen gonaki da sauransu. Duk da waɗannan tunasarwar ta zahiri, ƴan ƙasar Latvia sun kawar da kansu daga gadon kwaminisanci kuma sun rungumi sana'a kyauta. A cikin ɗan gajeren ziyarar da na yi, na sami mutanen Latvia suna abokantaka, masu aiki tuƙuru, da masu kasuwanci. Bangaren pellet na Latvia yana da ɗaki mai yawa don girma kuma yana da kowane niyyar ci gaba a matsayin ƙarfin duniya.