CORE OBJECTIVES / FUNCTIONS
The management, development and protection of the nation’s resources and environment in such a way as to conserve and renew them as an asset for succeeding generations.
The maximization of Papua New Guinea participation in wise use and development of forest resources as a renewable asset.
The utilization of nation’s forest resource to achieve economic growth, employment creation and industrial, and increase downstream processing of forest resources.
National Plantation Development and Reforestation Strategy Objectives
- To create and manage timber under sustained yield principles,
- To promote land cover and protection of degraded land surfaces
- To develop and manage forest plantations on a commercially sustainable basis,
- To promote reforestation and afforestation as a means to maintain forest estate,
- To promote the establishment woodlots, agroforestry, community forestry, farm forestry, in rural and urban areas,
- Develop a rolling five-year national Reforestation & Afforestation Program
- Reforestation and afforestation for the highlands to address forest cover and timber requirements in the future
- Provincial and LLGs to be involved in reforestation and afforestation projects
- Land to be secured under Joint venture agreement, Lease-Lease back, and Land Lease Agreement.
Reforestation & Afforestation Key functions
- Lead and manage the coordination of plantation development for the purpose of revenue generation for PNG and landowners,
- Develop sustainable forest management plantations to meet PNG’s climate change commitment and the needs of future generation.
- Develop plantation procedures and processes to meet certification standards
KEY RESULTS AREAS AND PERFORMANCE MEASURES
| KEY RESULT AREAS | KEY PERFORMANCE MEASURES |
| Increase in areas of forest plantations established | 45,000 hectares of land identified and acquired annualy |
| Increase in areas of community forest extension activities | 22 provincial nurseries and 89 district nurseries |
| Increase natural forest management areas | 5,000 ha annually through natural regeneration |
| Improved management of the Wau/ Bulolo | Revenue agreement with PNGFP 330 ha planted annually 500,000 seedlings annually K7 - K9 million anually |
UPDATE ON PLANTATIONS
| PLANTATIONS | AREA | MANAGEMENT STATUS |
| Bulolo | 9,463.34 | Sustainably managed |
| Ulabo | 1,500 | Harvested, replanting in progress |
| Kuriva | 1,400 | Harvested, under 2nd rotation coppicing stratergy |
| Brown River | 2,600 | Harvested, under 2nd rotation coppicing strategy |
| Waghi | 2,010.10 | Promote salvaged operations with SME's |
| Lapegu | 2,723.02 | Promote salvaged operations with SME's |
| Oomsis | 200 | Planting on-going |
| Madang NC | 820 | Partially harvested, to be rehabilitated |
| Keravat | 110 | Preservation for seed production |
| Kaut | 300 | 2nd rotation replanting on-going |
| Ialibu | 240 | Planting on-going, commercial thinning for poles, treated at Kagamuga |
LOG EXPORT FROM MAJOR PLANTATIONS 2011 - 2021
| PLANTATIONS | AREA | VOLUME EXPORTED | STUMPAGE VALUE IN KINA |
| Kuriva | 1,400 | 56,378 | 7,127,270.00 |
| Ulabo | 1,500 | 136,276 | 7,000,000.00 |
| Kaut | 300 | 9,000 | 441,000.00 |
| Total | 201,654 | 14,568,270.00 |