XI WORLD FORESTRY CONGRESS Antalya, Turkey, 13 to 22 October 1997
	VOLUME 3, TOPIC 12 SUMMARIES OF VOLUNTARY PAPERS ECONOMIC EVALUATION ON COMPOSITE BREEDING SEEDLING ORCHARD OF CARIBBEAN PINE FOR SUSTAINABILITY Su Xianfeng1 Establishing a Composite Breeding Seedling Orchard (CBSO) of Pinus caribaea, as one type of the Multiple Population Breeding System, has not only economic value, but environmental benefit as well. In this paper the economic evaluation of CBSO is conducted by using benefit cost analysis, profit and loss analysis, sensitive analysis. The results indicate that establishing and managing the CBSO the benefit/cost rate from its seed and timber production is 4.4, the internal rate of return is 13.45%, the net profit is 11720 yuan (Chines RMB) per hectare per year, with an investment return period of 17 years. The social benefit, that is the benefit of planting with improved seed from the CBSO, namely the genetic gain benefit, will be 120 times as much as the direct profit of CBSO. Though the hereditary value and gene conservation value are not marketed, they are high and accrue to society. Since CBSO is a form of structured breeding populations, combining many functions together and with sustainability, some demand-side incentives should be given to develop the CBSO. Keywords: Economic evaluation, Pinus caribaea, Composite Breeding Seedling Orchard, sustainability 1 Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China. Previous Section Next Section   Download the Pdf file for this topic (332 K) What is a Pdf file ?   Back to Top of the page
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