Forestry and the forest industry in Japan
from private banks. Repayment terms are over decades and most funds have been provided
for planting.
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In any industry, if market conditions deteriorate some establishments leave the industry.
Forestry is no exception. In the case of small forests, forestry households decrease their labour
input and increase their reliance on other sources of income. Originally, most managed their
forests part-time and maintained other jobs. It was therefore easy to reallocate labour input.
According to data published by the Forestry Agency, forestry households labour input to
forestry has been decreasing constantly since 1971.
Full-time forestry households could not leave forestry and had to confront harsh market
conditions. For them finding other sources of income meant changing occupations. It is more
difficult for them than for part-time forestry households to adjust their labour input. Also, the
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