• Shorter cycle (only 6-7 years)
• Highly adaptable to weather and soil conditions
• Huge demand for forestry products (big and increasing deficit of planted forests in MG)
• Fragmented market
• Forestry “blackout”
• Each hectare planted means that another 10 hectares of native forest are not cut down
• Able to generate extra returns with carbon credits
• Government and NGOs are tackling illegal wood extraction
• Big and diversified end-buyer market (pulp & paper, coal and wood, furniture, synthetic fabric,
oils, essences, poles, etc)

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