Forestry Department
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Forest Plantations Working Papers
TROPICAL FOREST PLANTATION AREAS
1995 DATA SET
Based on the work in 1997 of
D Pandey
Consultant
Edited by
M. Varmola and A. Del Lungo
May 2002
Forest Resources Development Service
Forest Resources Division
Forestry Department
Working Paper FP/18
FAO, Rome (Italy)
1.1 Objectives and scope of the study
1.2 Sources
1.3 Methodology1.3.1 Reported gross forest plantation areas
1.3.2 Industrial forest plantation areas
1.3.3 Estimation of net area of forest plantations
1.3.4 Rate of annual planting
1.3.5 Species composition
1.3.6 Areas of non-forest species
2 OVERVIEW OF FOREST PLANTATIONS
2.1 Annual planting rate
2.2 Estimated net forest plantation areas
2.3 Species composition
2.4 Reported area of non-forest species
3 DISTRIBUTION OF HARDWOOD PLANTATIONS
Appendix 1. Reduction factors for estimating net areas of forest plantations
Appendix 2. Country-wise gross and net forest plantation areas