This working paper was carried out under the UK/FAO Trust Fund Project Timber Production from Hardwood Plantations in the Tropics and Sub-tropics (GCP/INT/628/UK). The project was funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom. Information gained from the various case studies and technical studies has been extensively used. Data from the review of hardwood plantation areas was, for example, used in FAO’s Global Fibre Supply Model (FAO 1998), the Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Study (FAO 1998), State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) 1997 (FAO 1997), 1999 (FAO 1999), and 2001 (FAO 2001), as well as in a number of other papers and studies. The UK/FAO project, further, formed the basis for a review of recent developments in hardwood plantations in the tropics, one of the studies on trends in plantations for the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2000 (FAO 2001).
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The Forest Plantations Working Papers report on issues and activities in forest plantations. These working papers do not reflect any official position of FAO. Please refer to the FAO website (http://www.fao.org/forestry) for official information.
The purpose of these papers is to provide information on on-going activities and programmes, and to stimulate discussion.
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For quotation:
FAO (2002). Case study of tropical forest plantations in Malaysia by D.B.A Krishnapillay. Forest Plantations Working Paper 23. Forest Resources Development Service, Forest Resources Division. FAO, Rome (unpublished).
