Maximising productivity and profitability of Eucalypts and Acacias in Indonesia and Vietnam
Leader:
Tran Lam Dong
Department:
Leadership Institute
Duration:
07/2015 - 06/2019
Sponsor:
ACIAR
Field:
Plantation forests
Categories:
Project
Objective
Improving the management options for eucalypt and acacia plantations.
Improving pathways to adoption and diffusion through a better understanding of conditions that influence effective farmer investment in forestry.
Content
Establishment and maintenance experiments in Java, South Vietnam and North Vietnam with thinning and fertilizer treatments.
Maintenance of key high value thinning experiments through to the end of the rotation.
Modelling and economic analysis of different land use options and plantations for higher value products and/or pulpwood.
Development of training program and user friendly information sheets about growing acacia/ eucalypts to suit local growers.
Implementation of training and evaluation programs with local extension officers and acacia/eucalypt growers to improve farmer livelihoods.
Analysing existing social capital, through a network survey to identify points of strong social capital that can be leveraged and network gaps that are impediments to improved return from forestry.
Improving the capacity of women to benefit more from plantations.
Preparation of policy briefs based on social study outcomes.
Collation and synthesis of project outcomes into a full technical report.
