Management of forest growing researchand development The levy at work

摘要

With the introduction of a compulsory forest growing levy in January 2014, much of the industry-good research which was previously funded by voluntary contributions from industry members is now funded from the new levy. This has resulted in significant changes to the way in which the forest industry organises and funds its forest growing research activities.Until the mid-1980s forestry research was funded by the government via the Forest Service's research division, the Forest Research Institute. Collaborative research activity began with the introduction of a policy of the user pays where those who benefitted from forestry research were required to contribute to the costs. Cooperatives were established as a way of bringing forest industry participants together to set priorities and to provide funding.