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ECONOMY
FORESTRY
26 percent of Turkey is covered by the forest regimes.
The area covered by fine quality and productive forests form only a
very low ratio of 13 percent. The productive forest area per person
in the country is 0.14 hectares.
The average annual wood production in the forestry sector by public
and private sectors is approximately 29 million m3 . Approximately
68 percent of this wood production is used as fuel wood. In order to
cover the inner market demands, important amounts of wood is
imported every year starting from 1985.
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