The Tree Growers Tool Kit currently contains a booklet, financial models, research papers and reports that help farmers, field workers, foresters and land-use planners to:
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Estimate their income & expenditure throughout the growing cycle
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Estimate their financial returns at different years of harvest
- Prepare a cash flow plan for their tree business
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Incorporate trees into land-use plans
Booklets:
This A4 Technical Note accompanies the PNG sandalwood financial model (below)
Financial Models:
The MS Excel Financial Models listed below estimate the costs and returns of growing trees:
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Costs and returns calculator helps tree growers and field workers to estimate income and expenses throughout the growing cycle, and calculate the financial returns of timber production at different years of harvest. -
PNG sandalwood financial model helps tree growers and field workers to estimate the financial returns of smallholder sandalwood production combined with agricultural crops using the minimum, most likely and maximum prices paid for sandalwood products.
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PNG teak financial model helps foresters and land-use planners to estimate the costs and returns of growing teak with a 25 year rotation.
Further Reading:
Research papers
Legislation and policy review- Constraints of the Timber Authority harvest permit and options for improvement
- Reduced impact logging guidelines for small-scale forestry in PNG
- Landowners’ decision-making and small-scale commercial forestry in PNG
- Fostering commercial tree growing by small-scale landowners in PNG from a base in traditional agroforestry systems
- Ecoforestry central marketing units
- Value adding opportunities for community timber in local sawmills in Lae
- Prospects for marketing PNG sandalwood
Project reports
- Teak model estate & marketing plan
- Legal framework for smallholder woodlots
- Business plan development
- Balsa markets report
- PNG market analysis report for wood products