Development alternatives of forestry and forest industries in Yugoslavia

Based on elaborate study on real possibilities of development of forest industries of Yugoslavia, possible alternatives are presented. The first alternative takes present economic conditions as given, targets set by the Development Plan of Yugoslavia seem too optimistic. According to the second alternative, economic and business decisions gradually more and more rest within the associated labor. Under effects of economic Laws in relatively short period the structural disbalance within the economy disappears. However, due to the inertia of economic decisions from the past, forestry and forest industries are not fully valorised, and do not deliver effects otherwise able to produce. The third alternative supposes no influence of economic decisions from the past. Forestry and forest industries are able to satisfy domestic demand and export considerable quantities under optimal economic conditions, producing at the same time incentives on other areas of economic activities towards higher outputs and productivity. This hypotethical alternative delivers astonishing results: exports of goods and services could exceed imports by 50 percent.