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CIFOR-ICRAF s’attaque aux défis et aux opportunités locales tout en apportant des solutions aux problèmes mondiaux concernant les forêts, les paysages, les populations et la planète.

Nous fournissons des preuves et des solutions concrètes pour transformer l’utilisation des terres et la production alimentaire : conserver et restaurer les écosystèmes, répondre aux crises mondiales du climat, de la malnutrition, de la biodiversité et de la désertification. En bref, nous améliorons la vie des populations.

CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.

CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

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The economics of industrial trees plantations in Lao PDR: incentives or constraints to land conversion

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The promotion of commercial crops and industrial trees is a key priority of the Lao Government for long term socioeconomic development. An important constraint for the adoption of these new crops by villagers is the lack of information about the different aspects of their production: e.g. capital invested, labor requirements, management techniques, productivity, market outlet, contract-farming, timeframe between plantation, harvest, maturity. Key production parameters are provided in this paper to facilitate decision making on adoption of different commercial crops and industrial trees plantation: i.e. Teak (Tectoma grandis), Rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus camaldulensis), Northern black wattle (Acacia auriculiformis), Jatropha (Jatropha curcas) and Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis). This study was implemented based on documents available at the National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute and the Department of Forestry of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, at Faculty of Forestry of the National University of Laos and also on Internet websites. This study was conducted from April to July 2009. Its main objective was to propose a large range of options for tree plantation that would be adapted to different natural and human environmental found in the northern uplands of Laos.
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