Modalities and procedures of the sales of wood assortments on the example of forest estate “južni kučaj” despotovac

Abstract

The paper presents the movement of sales of commercially important beech assort­ments in the forest estate (FE) “Južni Kučaj” Despotovac.This includes forms of sales through contracts made with buyers on an annual basis, as well as through auctions conducted in this FE.On the other hand, the processes and procedures that formally follow the sales of wood assortments were analyzed.The data were collected through a questionnaire sent to FE.The period considered was 2002 - 2016 for the sales of veneer and peeling logs, as well as firewood.Selling by auction relates to 2016.In this paper, the comparative method, method of analysis and synthesis and description method were used in combination with other methods.Analysis of the time series, through the analysis of the trend, was applied for the movement of three types of timber assortments of beech: logs for veneer and peeling, sawlogs and firewood.

Keywords

• wood assortments
• fe “južni kučaj”
• sales
• bids
• contracts
• procedures