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Australian plantation statistics 2018 update

Overview  
Australian plantation statistics is published every year. It supports strategic forest industry planning and decision-making by presenting information on total plantation area, new planting and ownership. 

 ABARES has prepared this report under the auspices of the National Plantation Inventory (NPI). The NPI has surveyed public and private plantation growers and managers to collect data on plantations established primarily for wood production in Australia since 1993. 

 In this report plantation areas are presented by NPI regions for softwood and hardwood plantation types, species, jurisdiction, based on data collected from private growers and grower representatives and public state and territory agencies. 

 In this report 2016-17 data are compared with data from the 2006-07, 2011-12 and 2015-16 plantation reports. 

 Key Issues  

 Australia's total commercial plantation area was approximately 1,955,100 hectares in 2016-17, a decrease of 19,700 hectares (1.0 per cent) from 1,974,800 hectares in 2015-16. These plantations are located within the 15 NPI regions that also contain the vast majority of regional processing facilities (regional hubs) based on plantations. In 2016-17 the total area of softwood plantations was approximately 1,036,900 hectares, an increase of around 100 hectares from 2015-16. The total area of hardwood plantations was approximately 908,500 hectares, a decrease of around 19,800 hectares (2.1 per cent) since 2015-16. 

 In 2016-17 Victoria continued to have the largest total area of commercial plantations of Australia's states and territories (421,700 hectares), followed by New South Wales (394,400 hectares) and Western Australia (367,900 hectares). 

 The total area of new plantations established in 2016-17 was approximately 200 hectares, with half being hardwood and half softwood. All of the new plantations established in 2016-17 were privately owned. 

 In 2016-17 approximately 19,900 hectares of Australia's plantation estate was converted to another land use, all from hardwood plantations and the majority (78 per cent) in Western Australia. 

Tags: FORESTS, FORESTS Plantation, FORESTS Plantation statistics, FORESTS statistics, Farming, INDUSTRY, INDUSTRY Primary, National Plantation Inventory, area, broadleaved, coniferous, forests, hardwood, new plantations, ownership, plantations, softwood, timber
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australian plantation statistics 2017 update

Overview  
Australian plantation statistics is published every year. It supports strategic forest industry planning and decision-making by presenting information on total plantation area, new planting and ownership. The plantation areas are presented by National Plantation Inventory regions for softwood and hardwood plantation types, species and jurisdiction, based on data collected from private growers and grower representatives and public state and territory agencies. 

 Key Issues  
• Australia's total commercial plantation area was around 1,974,770 hectares in 2015-16, an increase of 1,331 hectares (0.1 per cent) from 1,973,439 hectares in 2014-15. The total area of softwood plantations was 1,036,800 hectares, an increase of around 1,400 hectares from 2014-15, and accounted for almost 53 per cent of total commercial plantation area. Total hardwood plantation area remained relatively unchanged at around 928,300 hectares, a decrease of 66 hectares since 2014-15, and accounted for 47 per cent of total commercial plantation area. 
• In 2015-16 Victoria continued to have the largest total area of commercial plantations (423,000 hectares), followed by New South Wales (394,400 hectares) and Western Australia (383,400 hectares). Western Australia accounted for the largest proportion of hardwood plantations (30 per cent) and New South Wales had the largest share of softwood plantations (30 per cent). 
• The total area of new plantations established in 2015-16 was 1,415 hectares, all softwood (radiata pine) planted in New South Wales. Around 83 hectares of Australia's plantation estate was converted to another land use. Government-owned plantations accounted for 98 per cent of the new plantation establishment; the remaining 2 per cent was funded by institutional investors. Private plantations remained unchanged at 1,505,200 hectares in 2015-16, representing 76.2 per cent of the total plantation estate. Public plantations accounted for 20.2 per cent and jointly owned (public and private) plantations represented 3.6 per cent of the total plantation estate. 


Tags: FORESTS, FORESTS Plantation, FORESTS Plantation statistics, FORESTS statistics, Farming, INDUSTRY, INDUSTRY Primary, National Plantation Inventory, area, broadleaved, coniferous, forests, hardwood, new plantations, ownership, plantations, softwood, timber
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Proportion of population using safely managed sanitation services, including a hand-washing facility with soap and water

This dataset describes the proportion of the Australian population that is using safely managed sanitation services, including a hand-washing facility with soap and water.

Primary Information Source: Bureau of Meteorology, National Performance Report 2017-18: Urban Water Utilities

http://www.bom.gov.au/water/npr/ 

Tags: Australian-SDG, Drinking-water, Goal-6, Indicator-6.2.1, International and Development Communication, SDG, SDG2018, Sustainable-development-goals, Water
Organization: Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Tasmania - CRA/RFA - Forests - National Estate - Old Growth of National Estate Significance

This dataset is a digital polygon coverage detailing places of potential National Estate significance for old growth forest. The old-growth polygons are coded with a unique number and the relevant National Estate values and criteria.

OGA298 is a State-wide coverage map of high quality old-growth forests of national estate significance in dry, wet and subalpine eucalypts communities and non-eucalypt communities.

All sites in oga298 are classified acoording to National Estate criterion A2: Importance in maintaining existing processes or natural systems at the regional or national scale.

OGB198 is a State-wide coverage map of  old-growth forests communities that are rare or uncommon.

All sites in ogb198 are classified acoording to National Estate criterion B1: Importance for rare, endangered or uncommon flora, fauna, communities, ecosystems, natural landscapes or phenomena, or as wilderness.

This is an archived dataset jointly owned by the Commonwealth and the Tasmanian Governments under the Tasmania-Commonwealth Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) data agreement of 8th November 1997.This data is restricted because it is considered sensitive by one or other data owners.  It is available to third parties under written license agreement by both the Commonwealth and Tasmanian governments on a case by case basis.
Restricted
The  Department is custodian for the following datasets, however their location is unknown.
OGA2PUBG - 100m grid public land only, general access
OGA2PRIG - 500m grid private land only, restricted access
OGB1PUBG - 100m grid public land only, general access
OGB1PRIG - 500m grid private land only, restricted access

Tags: FLORA_Biodiversity, FORESTS, FORESTS Natural_Mapping, FORESTS_Mapping, HERITAGE, HERITAGE Natural, Offline Data, VEGETATION
Organization: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Australian plantation statistics 2016

Overview  
 Australian plantation statistics is published every five years based on spatial data. It supports strategic forest industry planning and decision-making by presenting information on total plantation area, new planting and ownership. The spatial updates complement two other NPI information products published by ABARES: the annual tabular plantations update and the five-yearly comprehensive log supply forecast report. 

 In this report, plantation areas are presented for softwood and hardwood plantation types, species by NPI regions, and by state and territory. 

 Key Issues  
• Australia's total commercial plantation area declined by 26 260 hectares from 2013-14, to 1 973 400 hectares in 2014-15. The total softwood plantation area increased by around 11 200 hectares to 1 035 400 hectares and the hardwood plantation area declined by 34 800 hectares to 928 300 hectares in 2014-15. Although the decline has been attributed to a one-year change, the decline has happened over the past five years and is captured in this five-yearly spatial update. The changes are the result of plantation managers revising their area figures, unproductive plantation land being returned to agriculture or to the lessors on the expiration of hardwood plantation lease arrangements. 
• The total plantation area decreased in all states and territories except New South Wales and the Northern Territory, for which it increased by 0.8 per cent and 6.5 per cent, respectively, mainly because of improved mapping of plantations. The area of new plantations established in 2014-15 was around 600 hectares, with most planted in the Northern Territory and Queensland. Around 500 hectares of new hardwood plantations and around 100 hectares of softwood plantations were established in 2014-15. 
• In 2014-15 Institutional investors owned 50 per cent of the total commercial plantation area. Governments owned 21 per cent, as did Farm forestry and other private growers. The proportion of plantations owned by managed investment schemes (MIS) continued to decline and was around 5 per cent in 2014-15. This was a result of plantations that were previously managed by MIS being sold to institutional and private investors. 


Tags: FORESTS, FORESTS Plantation, FORESTS Plantation statistics, FORESTS statistics, Farming, INDUSTRY, INDUSTRY Primary, National Plantation Inventory, area, broadleaved, coniferous, forests, hardwood, new plantations, ownership, plantations, softwood, timber
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australian native forest commerciality

The Australian Sawlog Commerciality Database is the first spatial database of potential sawlog merchantability and productivity for Australia's native forests. It shows native forests capable of producing sawlogs commercially in Australia. This report describes how the database was developed and validated. 

 Commerciality is the expected volume yield of commercial sawlog that is available from a forest stand over the long term, assuming good silvicultural practices are followed. Commerciality is derived from a combination of the merchantability and productivity of forest stands. Merchantability is a forest stand attribute based on tree species composition and stand structure, and in this work refers to a forest stand's suitability for commercial production of sawlogs or other high-quality products. Productivity is also a forest stand attribute, and describes the potential yield of sawlogs from a forest stand. 

 To create the spatial database, ABARES obtained measures of sawlog merchantability and productivity from datasets in the National Forest Inventory (NFI) and combined these into attributes useful for mapping forest commerciality on a national scale. The database incorporates forest yield associations, which are groupings of forest types that display similar commerciality attributes. ABARES developed the national database using Regional Forest Agreement datasets, FORWOOD and Resource Assessment Commission data and estimates of productivity, and information provided directly to the NFI or published by state and territory agencies. Multiple-use public forest, leasehold forest and private forest are the main tenures reported because forests on these tenures are generally available for sawlog harvesting. 

 The Australian Sawlog Commerciality Database contains data of varying age and the level of confidence for the data input depends on the age of that data. Access to the data is restricted because it contains some commercial-in-confidence information. 

Tags: FORESTS, FORESTS Agroforestry, FORESTS Natural, FORESTS production, FORESTS statistics, Farming, Land Use, VEGETATION, commerciality, confidence, confidence matrix, forest, forest yield data, forest zones, leasehold estate, multi-purpose estate, private estate, productivity, validation
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Labour force survey

Overview  

 ABARES surveyed 600 vegetable, horticulture and cotton farmers in 2015-16 to investigate their use of hired labour, recent recruitment experiences and expected future requirements for labour. 

 Key Issues  
• In general, labour use (measured by total expenditure and wages as a proportion of total cash costs) is greater in the vegetable, horticulture and cotton industries than in other agricultural industries. However, the large distribution in the amount and type of labour used reflects the diversity of farm types captured by these surveys. 
• In the vegetable and horticulture industries, most farm employees are seasonal workers and most of these employees are working in Australia on a visa. In contrast, the cotton industry has more full-time employees, and those workers classified as seasonal are generally Australian or New Zealand residents. 
• In 2015-16 most farms did not face challenges filling vacancies or recruiting staff. 
• Most farmers indicated that they did not intend to change or would make minimal changes to their businesses over the next five years. However, farmers believed they would need to acquire new skills and knowledge to cope with a changing external environment. 
• Farmers saw lower farm business profits and the availability and quality of labour as the greatest workforce challenges facing farm businesses over the next five years. 
• Some farms identified the backpacker tax as a potential major workforce difficulty. This was of more concern to horticulture farmers (14 per cent) than to vegetable farmers (6 per cent). None of the cotton farms surveyed indicated that the backpacker tax was a likely future issue. 
 The survey was conducted before the Government brought in changes to the tax rate applied to working holiday makers (the so called 'backpacker tax'). This survey did not seek to determine farmers' expected labour force responses or losses from changes to the tax. Instead it focused on understanding the current farm workforce. The results from this survey could provide a base case for examining changes in the make-up of the labour force in the future. 


Tags: AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE Crops, AGRICULTURE Horticulture, Farming, INDUSTRY Primary, Murray-Darling Basin, cotton, horticulture, labour, vegetable
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Development of the Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) dataset

Australia uses the Montreal Process framework of criteria and indicators for reporting progress towards sustainable forest management. This includes reporting on the area of Australia's forest over which Indigenous people have use and rights, as recognised through formal and informal management regimes. The term Indigenous is used to refer to Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 

 Consultation with Indigenous stakeholders under the National Indigenous Forestry Strategy indicated a need for a dataset describing the variety of management arrangements for forest on Indigenous land. A new national spatial dataset of forested and non-forested land that is owned or managed by Australia's Indigenous communities, or over which Indigenous people have use and right, was therefore compiled in the National Forest Inventory from information supplied by Australian, state and territory governments and other statutory authorities with Indigenous land management interests. This dataset was then intersected with Australia's 2011 forest cover, to create a spatial dataset which was used to describe and map Australia's Indigenous forest estate.

 Four nationally consistent categories were created to represent the range of types of access, use and management that Indigenous people have in regards to land: Indigenous owned and managed; Indigenous managed; Indigenous co-managed; and Other special rights. These categories were used for reporting in  Australia's State of the Forests Report 2013  the area of Australia's forest over which Indigenous people have use and rights. A total of 41 million hectares of forest were identified across these four Indigenous management categories. About three-quarters of this Indigenous forest estate is in Queensland and the Northern Territory. The spatial data underlying these area figures were then published as the  Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013)  dataset. 

 This dataset is a significant advance in describing Indigenous use of forest land and involvement in natural resource management. For the first time, a comprehensive national description of the forest areas over which Indigenous people have ownership, management or special rights is available. 

Tags: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, FORESTS, Farming, Forest, INDUSTRY, INDUSTRY Primary, Indigenous, National Forest Inventory
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
What Indonesia wants: Analysis of Indonesia's food demand to 2050

With significant income growth and urbanisation, food demand in Indonesia is expected to increase significantly towards 2050. This study examines projected food demand in Indonesia across urban and rural populations under a business-as-usual policy environment with no changes to underlying policies. 

 The most significant demand growth is projected for meat, dairy products, fruit and vegetables among urban consumers. Assuming no significant change to agricultural productivity growth, food imports will be an important component of Indonesia's food and feed supply towards 2050. Because of their geographic proximity, Australia and Indonesia are well placed to benefit from advancing bilateral agricultural trade. 

Tags: AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES, Farming, INDUSTRY Primary, Indonesia, agrifood, consumption, production, projections to 2050, trade
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australian grains: financial performance of grain producing farms 2012-13 to 2014-15

Overview  
 The report was commissioned by the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC). The report draws on data from the ABARES annual Australian Agricultural and Grazing Industries Survey (AAGIS) to provide an overview of production, financial performance and productivity growth of the Australian grains, oilseed and pulse industry from 2012-13 to 2014-15. 

 Key Issues  
• Farm cash income in all three Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) regions is estimated to have declined in 2014-15 as a result of a reduction in winter grain yields and lower prices for wheat, oilseeds and pulses. 
• Incomes of Australian grain producing farms have been relatively high in recent years, compared with incomes recorded historically. 
• For Southern region grain producing farms, farm cash income is estimated to have decreased in 2014-15 to average $184 000 a farm; 43 per cent above the 10-year average to 2013-14 of $129 000 a farm in real terms. 
• Similarly for Western region grain producing farms, farm cash income is estimated to have decreased in 2014-15 to average $262 000 a farm; 24 per cent above the 10-year average to 2013-14 of $211 000 in real terms. 
• Dry seasonal conditions in the Northern region have resulted in estimated farm cash income of grain producing farms falling to average $79 000 a farm in 2014-15, around 24 per cent below the 10-year average to 2013-14 of $105 000 a farm in real terms. If realised, this would be the lowest farm cash income for Northern region grain growing farms since 2006-07. 
• Nationally, farm cash income of grain producing farms increased from $189 590 in 2012-13 to $213 100 in 2013-14. In 2014-15 farm cash income is estimated to have declined to average $171 000 a farm, around 24 per cent above the 10-year average to 2013-14 of $137 000 in real terms. 


Tags: Agricultural Commodities, Australian farm survey results 2012-13 to 2014-15, Australian grains, Farming, GRDC, Grains Research and Development Corporation, agroecological region, farm financial performance, financial performance, grain producing farms, grain production, grain stocks, production information, seasonal conditions, wheat yields
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Agricultural commodity statistics 2014

This annual report is a compendium of historical statistics covering the agriculture, fisheries, food and forestry sectors. It provides a set of comprehensive statistical tables on Australian and world prices, production, consumption, stocks and trade for 19 rural commodities. 
 The commodities covered include grains and oilseeds, livestock, livestock products, food, wool, horticulture, forestry products and fisheries products. 
 This report also contains statistics on agricultural water use and macroeconomic indicators such as economic growth, employment, balance of trade, exchange rates and interest rates. 

Tags: AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE Crops, AGRICULTURE Horticulture, AGRICULTURE Irrigation, AGRICULTURE Livestock, AGRICULTURE statistics, Australian, ECONOMICS, ECONOMICS Macroeconomics, FISHERIES, FISHERIES statistics, FORESTS, FORESTS statistics, Farming, INDUSTRY, INDUSTRY Primary, INDUSTRY Primary statistics, agriculture, coarse grains, commodities, economic, employment, food, forestry, historical, horticulture, livestock, macroeconomic indicators, statistics, trade, water, wheat, wine, wool
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australian grains: Outlook for 2015-16 and industry productivity

This report provides a summary of the outlook for major grains and oilseeds crops in 2015-16 published in the September 2015 editions of the  Australian Crop Report  and the grains section of  Agricultural commodities  and the 15 October 2015 edition of  Weekly Australian climate, water and agricultural update.  The report also includes material from an article on productivity in the Australian grains industry, which was published in the March 2015 edition of  Agricultural commodities.  

 This report was commissioned by the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC). 

Tags: AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE Crops, Farming, INDUSTRY, INDUSTRY Primary, cropping, crops, grains, productivity
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences