Abstract
In recent years afforestation and forestry public corporations throughout Japan have much debt and also find their profit-sharing forests approaching their regeneration cutting stage. As such, the growing of next-generation forests poses serious policy-related issues. To examine the prospects for next-generation forests in public corporation profit-sharing afforestation areas, it is useful to ascertain the intentions of public corporations and landowners for regeneration cutting and reforestation. We surveyed 41 public corporations and 300 landowners nationwide by sending questionnaires in FY2002 and FY2003. This paper intends to clarify the overall circumstances of public corporations and the policy issues of growing next-generation forests in profit-sharing forests. In our approach to such problems we analyze the differences in thinking between public corporations and landowners with respect to (a) growing next-generation forests, (b) rotation period extension, and (c) the financial/debt crisis of public corporations.
