To contribute to achievement of purposes outlined above and to serve as an example for state and private sector investors that will invest in industrial afforestation. Enat Company already achieved its purpose with its exemplary activities. As such;
The matter of industrial forestation started to occupy the agenda of the General Directorate of Forestry 10 years after the establishment of Enat A.Ş and it was started to engage in industrial afforestation following the model of Enat as of 2013 thanks to the persistent efforts of General Director of Forestry İbrahim Çiftçi.
Besides its purpose of setting an example, ENAT A.Ş started to contribute to meet the wooden raw material deficit to some extent thanks to its thin wood production. In addition, it achieved its purposes of reducing carbon emissions and contributing to rural development in the 17-year time frame that elapsed, and it will continue doing so in the future. (Raw material production and social and environmental contributions can be seen in technical reports section)
When industrial forest plantations amounting to 40,000 hectares are allocated per year from existing degraded and infertile forest areas, almost 18 million m3 wooden raw material can be produced per year in industrial forest plantation areas reaching 1 million hectares in 25 years. Considering that we can only produce the same amount of raw material from our natural forests across 20 million hectares, it will be better understood how efficient a resource industrial forest plantation is.
In consideration of worldwide examples in terms of industrial afforestation, it is seen that private sector is more successful than state forestry. The interest of private sector in industrial afforestation can be aroused only by incentives and support of the state in our country. This is because the only land source is at the disposal of the General Directorate of Forestry. In our country, where an investment with a quite long-term return is already not attractive at all, it is quite difficult for private industrial afforestation to reach expected levels without land provision guarantee and attractive loan support.
Although it was acknowledged in Forestry Councils that the most important issue of our forests in future decades is the deficit of wooden raw material and it was resolved to encourage establishment and generalization of state and private afforestations, the main reasons for the lack of interest in such investments by the private sector are as follows;
If we do not want to be dependent on other countries for wooden raw material and pay millions of dollars every year, if we are thinking about the future of our natural forests and our fibre-chip and paper sector, installed capacities of which exceeded European scale, we should be able to produce our own raw material on our own soil without being dependent on abroad.