Skogsstatistisk årsbok 2003.pdf - Skogsstyrelsen

SUMMARY14 EconomyIn 2001 the estimated gross value of annual felling in Sweden was 21,104 million SEK.Logging costs amounted to 7,060 million SEK and the net conversion value¹ was 14,044million SEK. Costs for silviculture, pre-commercial thinning, forest fertilization,maintenance and new investments in roads and drainage were 2,168 million SEK.The same year logging costs within large-scale forestry were 69 SEK/m³f pb for regenerationfelling and 128 SEK/m³f pb for thinning.The output from the wood-, pulp-, paper- and paper goods industry amounted to 176,661million SEK in 2000 (out of which the value added was 59,494 million SEK). Output ofwood for domestic use (firewood etc) and exported roundwood was 2,486 million SEK. Thetotal output from the forest industry sector was 179,147 million SEK.Value added from the forest industry was 13.6 percent of the manufacturing industries totalvalue added. The value added of the forest industry and forestry was together 3.4 percent ofthe total GNP.The export value of forest and forest industry products was 106,714 million SEK which was13.4 percent of total export value of products during 2000 and 4.9 percent of the totalGNP.Actual investments in the forest industry amounted to 10,588 million SEK in 2001.Total value of standing forest and forest land at the general assessment for taxes on real estatein 1998 was 181,029 million SEK. The value of standing forest and forest land at theannual conversion in 2002 was 231,775 million SEK.In 2002 state compensation for habitat protection was 104.2 million SEK, and 33.3million SEK for nature conservation measures guarded by civil right agreements. Othergranted subsidies amounted to: 30.7 million SEK for selected valuable broad-leaved forest;3.3 million SEK for measures to deal with soil acidification; and 8.5 million SEK fornature conservation and cultural heritage protection.1. Net conversion value = gross value – logging costs.This chapter concerns the economy of forestryand the forest industry. Statistics on the estimatedvolume and value of annual felling in Swedishforestry, from 1980/81 to 2001, is available (table14.1). The data are collected and processed by theAnalysis Department of the National Board ofForestry.In National Accounts investments are dividedinto machines, buildings and silviculture measurements.Cleaning, scarification (incl. burning),planting and sowing, forest fertilizing and drainageare counted as investments in silviculture. Precommercialthinning, as well as drainage- andforest road maintenance is classed as maintenance.Maintenance and investment costs are availablefor all forestry activities (table 14.2). The figuresare based upon statistics from large-scale forestry(companies and public owners).Logging costs have shrunk substantially in thelast decades, so that despite falling prices forroundwood, and especially pulp, the net conversioncontribution has increased, most remarkablyin the early 1990’s. Large-scale forestrylogging costs are presented (table 14.3) and thefigures are based on the same source as the sourcefor investment and maintenance costs.311