Integrating forestry and farming : commercial wood production on cleared agricultural land / report of the National Plantations Advisory Committee
- Bib ID:
- 1443112
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Australia. National Plantations Advisory Committee
- Description:
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- Canberra : Dept. of Primary Industries and Energy, 1991
- 4 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0642168628
- Summary:
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Recommendations: (a) National plantation strategy should be developed and promulgated; (b) Certain taxation disincentives need to be removed by indexing for inflation; (c) Modest incentives are needed to encourage investors, through taxation rebates appropriately modified for high income investors; (d) Distortions in the pricing systems for wood should be reduced and cost and price reporting systems encouraged; (e) Exports of unprocessed wood from plantations on cleared agricultural land should not be restricted; (f) Uniform property rights relating to standing trees need to be developed; (g) Planning controls should be modified to make integrated tree planting an 'as of right' use; (h) Appropriate mechanisms need to be developed to conserve representative samples of all native species, populations and communities; (i) Invasion of publicly owned native forest by exotic species needs to be monitored and, if necessary, controlled; (j) An enforceable code of plantation practice needs to be introduced for publicly and privately owned land; (k) Aerial application of chemicals needs to be regulated; (l) An expanded program of research and development that integrates commercial tree growing with agricultural pursuits is needed, including additional Commonwealth funding of
- Full contents:
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- Report
- Appendix A. 1. Overseas study mission report. 2. Working group on financial mechanisms and structural impediments
- Appendix B. Working group on environmental and management constraints
- Appendix C. Working group on farm planning and community involvement.
- Executive summary
- List of recommendations
- 1. Background
- 2. Opportunities to develop timber resources on cleared agricultural land
- 3. Challenges ahead
- 4. Supplementary material.
- Notes:
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- Chairman: B.N. Richards.
- Includes bibliographic references.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Richards, B. N. (Bryant Neville)
- Terms of Use:
- Commonwealth of Australia 1991.
- Copyright:
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- Until 2041 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1991
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