Table A7: Number of Owners and Area of Planted Production Forests1

(by planted production forest size group as at 1 April 2000)

Planted production
forest owner size class
(ha)
Number of owners
of planted
production forests
Total planted
production forest area2
(ha)
0 - 39 13 139 2 306 259
40 - 99 598 38 326
100 - 499 543 107 001
500 - 999 54 36 786
1000 + 126 1 280 266
Total 14 460 1 768 638

Source: A National Exotic Forest Description as at 1 April 2000, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (Wellington, 2001)

Notes:

1The data in this table are based on forest owners, not individual forests. Many large forest owners own multiple forests.
2
The number of owners of forests less than 40 hectares is as at 30 June 1994, from Statistics New Zealand, 1994 Agricultural Census results.

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