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One in nine cut for sale
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2013-09-19T10:00:00.000Z
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Forestry gives an overview over forest properties, productive forest areas and the number of properties carrying out industrial roundwood for sale in the previous year and in the last ten-years-period.

Forest properties, 2012

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One in nine cut for sale

In 2012, timber was cut for sale on 15 100 forest properties. During the last 10-year period, 36 per cent of the forest properties sold timber.

Forest properties.Published 19 September 2013
2012
Number of propertiesShareProductive forest areaShare
In total129 101100.070 251 347100.0
Productive forest area in decares
25-99 decares44 28034.82 477 0303.5
100-249 decares34 08326.35 570 4457.9
250-499 decares22 32717.27 935 60611.3
500-999 decares15 66712.010 959 44615.6
1 000-1 999 decares7 9816.210 967 76415.6
2 000-4 999 decares3 5602.810 495 17914.9
5 000-19 999 decares9750.88 556 44312.2
20 000 decares or more2280.213 289 43418.9

Source: Statistics Norway

According to new cartographic data, 129 100 properties have a productive forest area of 2.5 hectares or more. Registered productive forest area amounted to 7.03 million hectares. A total of 35 500 of the forest properties are owned by a person who also runs an agricultural holding, which is 650 fewer than in 2011.

One in ten cut timber for sale

Forest owners in the county of Hedmark were the most active, with more than one in four properties carrying out commercial roundwood removals. The activity level varied considerably between the counties. In the country as a whole, a total of 46 900 forest properties have sold timber at least once in the last 10-year period. In the county of Hedmark, 63 per cent of the properties have cut timber for sale during the last ten years.

Forest Trust Fund grows

At the start of 2011, forest owners had set aside NOK 1 150 million in the Forest Trust Fund – NOK 89 million more than in the previous year.

New data from 2011Open and readClose

As from 2011, the number of forest properties and productive forest area is based on new cartographic data analyses and data on owners and properties from the cadastre in combination with data from the Farm register. In addition, the statistics are built on data from several administrative registers.