What is the Government doing to encourage the full utilisation and expansion of plantation and farm forestry?
The Government’s Wood and Paper Industry Strategy sets out a range of initiatives which promote the expansion and full utilisation of the plantation and farm forestry resource. These include removal of export controls (subject to protection of environmental values); removal of taxation anomalies; identifying and removing impediments related to land use planning, harvesting rights and transferability of ownership; expansion of plantations on farms; research and development; and facilitating access to information.
