Maximising productivity and profitability of Eucalypts and Acacias in Indonesia and Vietnam

Acacia and eucalypt plantations are an important source of sustainably produced wood for the pulp mills of Sumatra, as well as income for smallholder farmers in Indonesia and Vietnam. Smallholders can grow acacias for pulpwood in both countries, but there is interest in the potential for growing acacias to produce sawlogs. Disease pressures in Sumatra on the industrial acacia resource have resulted in a rapid transition from Acacia mangium to Eucalyptus pellita in most of the core growing areas, and the need to understand the changes in site and resource requirements of the eucalypts that are being established after several rotations of A. mangium. This project aimed to develop the new knowledge and to build capacity that would support improved and increased supply of plantation wood from industrial plantations. It also sought to improve the lives and livelihoods of communities and smallholder farmers in Indonesia and Vietnam through the development, and adoption, of best practice management of fast growing eucalypt and acacia plantations

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