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Malaysia Forestry Outlook Study

Year of publication 2009

Pages 69

Author Thang Hooi Chiew (2009);Forestry Group

Product type Document

Category Other document

Series title RAP Publication

Series number 1020-6221|1014-2789|18194591|0428-9560

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The country outlook report for Malaysia provides a comprehensive view of the forestry sector emphasizing targets to bring all permanent reserved forests under sustainable forest management, certify all Malaysian forest products and significantly expand wood production by 2020. Export of logs is, however, expected to be phased out by 2020 while forest area will fall by 9%.

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