The growing demand on timber has been responded by creating commercial timber plantation. In some countries, timber plantation is old business as the lifecycle of cultivated tree species take for decades to be commercially harvested. In case of paper material crops, the business usually manages around 10 years of tree lifecycle.
Both short and long term life cycle, timber plantation business can be operated in very large area. This post is trying to collect a piece of insight for everyone that interesting to establish the opportunity of timber plantation as their business core activities.
In developing countries such Cameroon and Indonesia, extractive business such timber plays important role to the economy. Here a brief of economic estimation of timber plantation in case of Panama:
