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KUCHING (Borneo Post) – Sarawak’s total export value of timber and timber products dropped to MYR3.1 billion in 2023 from MYR3.9 billion in 2022, said Deputy Premier Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan, the Borneo Post reported. The Second Minister for Natural Resources and Urban Development said the export value of logs stood at MYR559 […]

KUCHING: Jaya Tiasa Holdings Bhd’s efforts to revive its downstream timber processing activities will hinge on the supply of logs from its planted forest.

04/27/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/28/2021 15:12 Speakers Discuss Ways States Can Confront Large-Scale Land Clearing, Boost Cooperation among Stakeholders, as Forum on Forests Continues Session The Forum on Forests focused on ways to better implement the United Nations strategic plan for forests and its six global forest goals, particularly in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals and the upcoming fifteenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biolo...

Big industry: A timber company’s harvest in Sarawak. The state embarked on the planted forest programme in 1997 to ensure sustainable supply of raw materials for the downstream timber-processing industries and to reduce pressure on the natural forest. KUCHING: Timber companies holding licences for planted forests (LPFs) are no longer permitted to carry out any new oil palm planting in the licensed areas with immediate effect. The LPF holders failing to complete the new tree planting plan by 2...