Abstract
The profitability of forest management has been declining due to stagnating domestic timber prices and increasing management cost. With a waning in enthusiasm on the part of the forest owners, forest management is now in a state which is less than desirable. With this, there is no supply system which corresponds to the maturing of forest resources. In the river basin forest management system, it is necessary to constitute a system encompassing production, processing and distribution, from upstream to downstream. For this, it is vital that comprehensive information related to forests and forestry be systemized and a networked information system in a management unit be established. Such a network should provide the following functions 1) information exchange 2) collection of information for marketing 3) inter-connection with various industries 4) efficient management. In this paper, a sample system is proposed for the study site and related problems are discussed.
