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Mutual Benefits through the cultivation of swamp jelutung (Dyera polyphylla): Preventing peatland degradation and creating income by an endemic latex producing Tree of Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Brunei and Malaysia)

Year of publication 2016

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 4p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) A swamp jelutung plantation offers a sustainable alternative to commodities that require drainage (such as oil palm or Hevea rubber), as naturally wet peat does not oxidise. Also, drained peatland will in many cases end up becoming (semi-) permanently flooded and is not a long-term option, while undrained (or rewetted) peatland with swamp jelutung will remain operational in the long-term.

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