1.   In Southeast Asia, most of the land is grabbed for oil palm, coffee, rubber or commercial forest plantations.

2.   He said forest plantations could support wood-based industry both for the district and the hilly areas in the State.

3.   Increased local community and non-government organization participation is projected to sufficiently supplement production from natural forest with those forest plantations.

4.   On itsown, the forest plantation, being monocrop and sometimes planted withexotic species, may not fit environmental and conservational requirements.

5.   The project will have its own sustainable forest management program which will include converting and rehabilitating waste and idle land into productive forest plantation, the statement said.