INVESTIGATION OF WOODEN NEED CHANGE IN THREE PAST DECADES IN IRAN

Investigation of wooden needs in each country is very important and necessary for using in the country by community. Meanwhile, having accurate information of the amount of these needs in the various forestry part of country can be appropriate guideline for future predictions. The present paper has been implemented with purposes of investigation the production amount, export and import amount of Iran country in wood using Available data in various organizations. In the paper, has been tried the total wooden needs would be identified and its amount in the future would be predicted using the measuring timber production and consumption in every sector and every product and graphical analysis of existing data. The results showed that the general consumption of wood is growing in Iran from year to year while the amount of wood production has been intensely decreased in recent years. As a result the country's dependence on imported wood has been increased. Thus can be predicted the amount of consumption and need to wood would be increased in future years. So should compensate this deficiency with more wood production in Iran and export decrease and wood purchase with proper price from the outside.