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Lowest quantity cut in 34 years
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2010-01-21T10:00:00.000Z
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skogav, Commercial roundwood removals, timber price, quantity timber cut, felling, forest waste, spruce, pine, broad-leaved trees, firewood, pulp wood, saw logsForestry , Agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing
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Commercial roundwood removals, 2009, preliminary figures

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Lowest quantity cut in 34 years

A total of 6.7 million cubic metres of industrial roundwood were cut for sale in 2009; a decrease of almost 1.4 million cubic metres from 2008. A lower quantity of timber has not been cut since the working year 1976/77. The average price of saw logs fell 16 per cent.

Quantity cut of industrial roundwood for sale. 1976/77-2009*. 1 000 cubic metres

Average price per cubic metre industrial roundwood for sale. 1980/81-2009*. NOK

Change in quantity cut of industrial roundwood for sale from 2008 to 2009*. County

The aggregated gross value of the roundwood sold to the industry in 2009 totalled NOK 2 billion. According to preliminary calculations, the forest owners obtained an average price of NOK 300 per cubic metre sold, compared with NOK 364 in 2008.

The county of Hedmark had the highest decrease with 280 000 cubic metres.

Quantity cut of industrial roundwood for sale, by quarter. 2009*. Selected counties

Average price per cubic metre industrial roundwood for sale, by quarter. 2008* and 2009*. NOK

Decrease in the fourth quarter

For the country as a whole, commercial roundwood removals fell by 6 per cent in the last quarter of 2009 compared with the corresponding quarter in the previous year.

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