Financial Assessment of Forest Management Systems in the Community Forests: A Case Study from the Midhills of Nepal

Table 7

Financial analysis of two forest management system.

Present value	Market price		Subsidized price
	SciFM	ConvFM	SciFM	ConvFM
Benefits (a)	2,658,480	1,775,872	712,581	591,490
Cost (b)	1,319,322	833,470	850,464	405,768
Net present value (a-b)	1,339,159	942,401	(134,107)	185,722
Benefit-cost ratio (b/a)	2.02	2.13	0.84	1.46

Unit: NRs/ha. Note. At 10% discounting rate.