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Guidelines for cost-effective data collection and database development

  1. Identify a central agency or unit responsible for data collection and database maintenance.

  2. The agency should prepare a standard survey form for data collection incorporating all the required details for supporting the private sector in plantation development and for predicting future wood supplies.

  3. The agency should request the appointment of state, provincial or district officers who are tasked with conducting the survey.

  4. Appointed officers are trained on data collection in the field during a pre-test.

  5. Subsequently, appointed officers carry out the surveys. The first survey will be intensive to capture all available data on forest plantations.

  6. All costs incurred by the officers will have to be borne by the respective state, provincial or district office.


  7. The appointed officers are responsible for preparing the data before they are sent to the central agency for consolidation into a single database; they are then keyed into the central database.

  8. Records need to be updated on an annual or biannual basis.

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