STRATEGIC FOREST PLANTATION ESTABLISHMENT IN MALAYSIA FOR FUTURE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND UTILISATION
STRATEGIC FOREST PLANTATION ESTABLISHMENT IN MALAYSIA FOR FUTURE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND UTILISATION
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在马来西亚建立战略性森林种植园,用于未来产品的开发和利用
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2015
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Hashim
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Forest plantations in Malaysia are geared towards supplementing timber produced from natural forests for downstream industrial manufacturing. Owing to relatively short rotation and high productivity, planted forests are capable of yielding timber of specific quality within a period of 3 30 years. The launching of large scale reforestation programmes (e.g. Compensatory Forest Plantation) in the past and the current development of government-assisted private forest plantations throughout the country are the indicative of this conventional strategy. However, the expected change in the role of natural forests, from timber production to environmental services and biodiversity conservation in the future would emphasise the mission of forest plantations as a main wood and non-wood producers. Moreover, forest-based products of the future would be very diverse, short-lived and technology driven. Environmental friendly products in the forms of bioenergy, pulp and paper, wood composite products, and plant-based cosmetics, nutraceuticals and medicinal products would dominate the market. Nevertheless, availability of suitable land for forest plantation establishment is rather limited, except for the degraded and infertile idle lands. Under of this probable setting, strategic move has to be formulated to establish forest plantations using various approaches in order to transform forest plantations into a sustainable land use option for timber and non-timber production. Several approaches including establishment of short rotation woody crop (SRWC) plantation, intermediate rotation forest plantation, long rotation, high quality forest plantation, mixed-species forest plantation and agroforestry are proposed. The prospects of these plantation forestry approaches in Malaysia are discussed in the light of the future scenario of products development and utilisation.