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Use of agricultural land | Forestry by regions | Exports
- Planted production forest covered 1.9 million hectares in 2002, up 26 percent since 1994.
- Forestry activity uses 7 percent of New Zealand's total land area.
- The area of new plantings of production forest totalled 34,000 hectares in the December 2001 year. Replantings of production forest totalled 42,500 hectares in this period.
- The area planted in production forest has increased by more than a quarter since 1994 as marginal farming land is converted.
Use of Agricultural Land
Year ended 30 June 2002
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Planted Production Forest by Region
At 30 June 2002
Further information: Final results from the 2002 Agricultural Production Census and provisional results from the 2003 Agricultural Production Survey.
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Exports
- Forestry exports (excluding newsprint) were worth $3,546 million in the June 2002 year, about 10 percent of all exports.
Forestry Product Exports, 2002
Agriculture in New Zealand
Animal farming in New Zealand
Forestry in New Zealand
Growing crops in New Zealand
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