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TIMBER FROM PRIVATE FORESTS AS A SOURCE FOR WOOD- PROCESSING INDUSTRY

Forestry and wood-processing industry are linked businesses due to the production and respectfully the usage of timber suitable for processing. Looking from wood-processing industry standpoint, the quantities of timber available on the Croatian market do not meet their demand. This paper analyzes the characteristics of the private forest estates advertised for sale (period 2010-2020), and it is an attempt to explore the quantity and quality of timber that could be used for wood-processing industry and by that diminish the supply shortage. The data on the private forests estate’s spatial distribution (cca552, 000 ha), timber processing plants (416 pcs.), road network (cca44, 500 km) and the simulations (period 2018-2048) of private forests management (Beljan et al. (2020) [SmallScaleForestry 19: 19- 39]) have been collected and focused just on those estates advertised for sale. In the period of the last 11 years about 740 ads, advertised via on-line platform Njuškalo.hr, have been analysed. The total average surface of estates for sale is about 170 hectares per year, but with the tendency of increasing. Predominant forest types such as beech, sessile oak and beech-fir forests, when performing sustainable and close-to-nature forest management, can produce about 350 m3 year-1 of timber suitable for wood-processing. If we observe all private forest estates which are for sale, the conclusion is that they cannot fill the gap between the national forestry’s supply and wood-processing industry demand, but they represent a respectable contribution for reaching that goal.

Croatia, supply, demand, natural forests, added-value chain

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