%0 Research Notes
%T Inventatory of small-scale peat production
%A Eilavaara, Erkki
%D 1986
%J Suo - Mires and peat
%V 37
%N 3-4
%U http://suo.fi/article/9619
%X The small-scale production of sod peat in Finland is, generally, production on farms for their own use. According to two postal questionnaires made by the Forestry Department of the Work Efficiency Association there were, in Finland, in 1980 77 and in 1984 136 small producers of sod peat. In the questionnaires, the production technology, economy, availability, conditions, areas and quantities of small-scale producers were identified. According to the questionnaires peat production on farms is mainly practised by using the farm's own labour and on their own or a hired production area. The larger part of small-scale production of peat is production of sod peat. Other peat products produced on farms are milled peat, agricultural peat and horticultural peat.

Keywords: peat, production, technology.