German bank pledges €13.5m for KP’s tree project

[Dubious]

We're importing timber now.

Well it is temporary...once the trees are big, we will have our own timber supply....as long as people keep planting...over time you can cut some and replant some...Many countries in Scandinavia are doing so!

 

[Khafee]

Well it is temporary...once the trees are big, we will have our own timber supply....as long as people keep planting...over time you can cut some and replant some...Many countries in Scandinavia are doing so!

I think he has a genuine concern.

Someone should do a thread on sustainable tree farming & Mangrove plantation.

 

[El Sidd]

I think he has a genuine concern.

Someone should do a thread on sustainable tree farming & Mangrove plantation.

its being smuggled as we speak but nobody cares

 

[Max Pain]

Well it is temporary...once the trees are big, we will have our own timber supply....as long as people keep planting...over time you can cut some and replant some...Many countries in Scandinavia are doing so!

or we should look for some alternative to wood altogether

 

[Dubious]

or we should look for some alternative to wood altogether

Research needs money...

In the west there is big money in research to study hardwood....its formation and genes involved in increasing its natural production...so playing with those genes will give you more hardwood per plant...

 

[Verve]

I think he has a genuine concern.

Someone should do a thread on sustainable tree farming & Mangrove plantation.

I'm in this sector at present and it is a very long process of regeneration and reforestation before harvesting.

The criminal butchering that happened in KP will take minimum 15 years before block harvesting can be started.

 

[Pakhtoon yum]

or we should look for some alternative to wood altogether

Or genetically modified trees that grow in half the time thay natural trees do. They can be farmed like other genetically modified plants, kept away from the natural population