Return on investments in forestry

"A forestry investment on good sites close to ports will generally show a projected rate of return of between 6% and 9%.

That is, a yearly compound increase of 6% to 9% on the value of the investment:

($1,000 + 8% = $1,080 in year one; $1,080 + 8% = $1,166 in year two; $93,756 + 8% = $101,257 in year 60).

Well planned high country plantings would probably achieve rates of return in the range of 2% to 7%."

Any forestry company promising higher return is highly suspect and should be subject to critical investigation.

The Dutch history
The Dutch teak investment market provides many good examples of astronomical return rates that had to be down-scaled annually in order to keep up with an ever-encroaching reality.

[Now it would be nice if someone could actually provide us with some figures here…]

Scholtens and Spierdijk the case of tropical timber investment funds in the Netherlands.pdf