| Description |
4 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Executive summary -- List of recommendations -- 1. Background -- 2. Opportunities to develop timber resources on cleared agricultural land -- 3. Challenges ahead -- 4. Supplementary material |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 $1 million per year; (m) A Eucalypt tree breeding cooperative needs to be established with the assistance of funding from the Commonwealth, industry and private growers; (n) A program of public education and a network of demonstration plantations on farms are needed to encourage farmers to engage in tree planting; (o) Advice to farmers needs to be integrated through whole farms planning and appropriate extension training; (p) A multi-disciplinary group needs to be established to develop effluent treatment systems that incorporate irrigated plantations; (q) A register of publicly owned land in urban municipal areas needs to be developed and plantation development encouraged on that land; (r) Prospective wood production from plantations on cleared agricultural land should be taken into account in planning regional and national wood supply; and (s) National and, where appropriate, regional and local advisory committees should be formed to advise on policy and to disseminate information, promote marketing opportunities, and identify research, development and extension needs.ke a payment to t z |
| Analysis |
Agroforestry |
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Federal issue |
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Forest products |
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Reafforestation |
| Notes |
Chairman: B.N. Richards |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references |
| Notes |
Commonwealth of Australia 1991 |
| Subject |
Agroforestry -- Government policy -- Australia.
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Agroforestry -- Australia.
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Land use, Rural -- Australia.
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| Author |
Richards, B. N. (Bryant Neville)
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National Plantations Advisory Committee
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| LC no. |
38001484 |
| ISBN |
0642168628 |
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