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N. Zealand Expands Man-Made Forestry

It lain a unique position to take advantage of the impending world thnber shortage by Derek Round
NEW Zealand lias cmb arked on a major campaign to encourage export sale* of Its Cast growing radiata pine a* envi-the threat lo tropical rain fata*
The New Zealand Forel Owners Association is spearheading the -Renewable Radi ata Pine Campaign' aimed at emphasising ihe renewable nature of the country s forest products and the environmental acceptance of man-made plantation forestry
The campaign is aimed particularly at Japan which is dials pine a^more countries clamp down on milling of tropical rainforests.
Radiata pine Is one of the world s fastest growing trees R re"dfcJI* “ PU*P 7
New Zealand's forestry export earnings Increased 22 per rent Last year to more than NZ$15 billion (UMM
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There have bren"forecasts that the forest industry, now arrounting for JO per rent of
export earnings by the end of the century.
But there i* also concern that logs at present account for a big proportion of exports and there are calls for more processing to be done here. The Ministry of Forestry ha. esti mated that processing logs into sawn timber or pulp would produce two and a half times more In revenue than exporting the fogs in their raw form.
The wood crop Is set to tn-crease from 13 million cubic metres fast year to 20 million in the year 2000
If the increase is exported
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bui if sawn or pulped 11 would bring an extra NZ$2.5 billion Further processing would add
A huge Insvstment put as hKh as NZ$5-7 MNsn to «.
to be required to de *«h»p the Industry over the next 20 year*
New Zealand to looking to
countries like Japan, which alone imports NZ$11 billton worth of timber a year, to provide some of this investment.
A Japanese firm. Juken Nis-sho. has recently bought 44.000 hectares of previously state-owned forests and a fibreboard mill and says It plans to build two more mills to process wood from its forests here.
Forest Owners Association president Bryce Heard, wel coming the Japanese move, ■aid Japan had played a pivotal role tn the development of the New Zealand forest Industry
The first export of radiata logs to Japan in the late 195Os had been the first recognition there was a market for New Zealand radiala pine outside New Zealand and Australia
This was a key factor in the ihe IMO*. resulting in the area in pine growing from 380.000 hectare* to 1.2 mil Hon hectares in the last 30 year*.
The New Zealand Government ha* juat given a boost to increased tree planting by Announcing that costs of planting and maintaining fhrests can be claimed as a tax deduction in the year they are incurred instead of being deducted only when the trees are harvested.
Revenue Minister Wyatt Creech says : "We are in a unique position to take advantage of the impending w-.1d shortage of timber. Our I irgc pine forest plantings maturing over the next decade will lead to a dramatic increase in wood production from the mid-1990s.
"In New Zealand there is still potential lo increase forestry without converting indigenous forest or taking good agricultural land out of productton."
While the government's de cisIon to encourage planting by tax UMiccsstons lias been welcomed by forest owners. Ils decision to allow woodchip-ping in some native beech forests has brought sharp criticism from environmentalists
The government said it would allow 1.200 hectares of beech forest In the Southland .region of New Zealand to be felled till 1995 to allow a local chipnAH to export 45.000 tons of beech chip a year to Japan. Dieting would continue after 1995 but would be reduced to a sustainable level lo protect the forest