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Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - NRW Environment Minister Ursula Heinen-Esser (CDU) has appealed to the sawmill companies in the state to pay the forest farmers more for their wood.
Cut wood is currently generating enormously high sales revenues on the markets.
The forest farmers who supplied the raw wood for it would have little of it.
The forest owners would have to share in the proceeds in order to get funds for the reconstruction of the forests, explained the minister.
Heinen-Esser also turned against exports of large quantities of wood overseas.
The sawn timber must be brought to the regional markets, she demanded.
The forest industry across the country criticizes the high export volumes and low income of forest farmers.
Last week, the President of the German Forestry Council, Georg Schirmbeck, even called for a “saw strike” in the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”.
Cut wood is exported en masse to North America and China.
"Huge profits are made with our raw material, but the forest farmers do not benefit from it," said Schirmbeck.
"We are being ripped off by the few timber trading groups that dominate the market."
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