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ŠUMARSKI LIST 11-12/2005 str. 56     <-- 56 -->        PDF

D. Vuletić, R. Sabadi: DA LI SE I KAKO NAŠE ŠUMARSTVO I ŠUMSKA INDUSTRIJA OPORAVLJA ... Šumarski list br. 11–12, CXXIX (2005), 597-610
SUMMARY: The development of forestry and forest industries in Croatia,
has been strongly negatively influenced by the Patrriotic War. The Patrotic
War hasn’t only been the war of creation of the Croatian state, but the revolutionary
upturn of the centrally regulated economic system and its replacement
into market oriented economy, with bigger or smaller motes of social
care for the population.


Despite the war destructions and its consequences, the different activities
within the economic forestry and forest industries branch, revitalize, due to
economic, social and political structure in different manner. Harvesting and
removals probably will already in the first decade of 21. century reach its
asymptotic values. Sawmilling expects, guessed by all means, after the transitive
system breaks apart, increased investment in establishment of small number
large and rationale oriented sawmilling facilities. As in the rest of the
world, such a development will result in significant job reduction. Because of
supply and demand, despite of gray and black market, already appear some
movements towards given equilibrium under existing economic-political circumstances,
such as slowing down of establishment of new, little and unproductive
sawmills, and departure from the market existing ones. It seems that a
permanent equilibrium will not appear until changes in macro-and micro-
economical constellation are brought into accordance with basic economic
laws, and solid juridical system established.


The recovery of industries producing raw materials for further manufacturing,
such as veneers, and wooden boards, shows different shape of development,
but it seems that by all means these industries expect, such as lumbering,
similar path towards restructuring, carried or be carried in the industrially
developed world.


After disapearance or basically structural changed the industries of products
of final use, under the unavoidable logic of the market economy will
probably be oriented toward small, flexible and rationale production. By
analogy it is hardly possible to expect significant increase in exports, which


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The above asessment seems unavoidable unless a new macroeconomic
policy is implemented, which requires great knowledge, courage, honesty and
patriotism, which in the present moment seems in short supply.
Key words: War damages, Forest exploitation, Sawmilling, Wooden
bord production, Final use of wood products industry, Economic policy