Around 15 million private forest owners own about 60% of the forest land in the EU. Privately-owned forests have an average size of 13 ha, but the majority of them are less that 3 ha in size. This group supplies the raw material for the forest based industries with the help of 492,000 people employed in forestry. Forestry and forest-based and related industries employ about 3.4 million people. Eur ...