Abstract

Linear programming was used to determine the optimal mix of measures with varying budgets. At present the company's silvicultural budget is around 100 million SEK annually. Increasing the silvicultural budget by 5 million SEK would result in an increase in net present value of almost 24.2 million SEK. This represents 48% of the increase of net present value if all the profitable measures are carried out. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Optimisation; Silviculture; Timber production; Genetically improved regeneration material; Contorta; Fertilisation; Ditching

Published in

Forest Policy and Economics
2010, Volume: 12, number: 6, pages: 473-482
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

SLU Authors

• Simonsen, Rune

  • Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Gong, Peichen

  • Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Wibe, Sören

  • Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Forest Science


Publication Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2010.03.002

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/48045