Kočevska Reka – The SiDG state forestry company held its first public auction of valuable timber in Kočevska Reka on Monday, with almost the entire offering of around 650 m3 of timber being sold. The auction was visited by Agriculture Minister Jože Podgoršek, who endorsed this method of selling wood from the state-owned forests. SiDG chief operating officer Matjaž Juvančič told the STA on the occasion that the company annually cut down around 1.1 million m3 of timber, of which 600,000 m3 are logs. Between 2% and 3% of these…
