Purposeful research and sound planning activities in forestry should be based on adequate data recorded in the field. Normally this data is of large quantity and its manual processing was always a time consuming and tedious task. Consequently, the results obtained in this way were not of a desired standard and mostly not available on time. This was a big hinderance in the efficient execution of forestry operations. To overcome these difficulties, the Pak-German Project assisted the PFI in developing modern data processing facilities by providing suitable computer hard-and software (computer programmes). A brief description of the available software and their application in data- processing and planning activities in forestry.