Historically, public-sector agencies have dominated forest plantation development in most countries in Asia and the Pacific. In the more recent past and for a variety of reasons, it has been widely accepted that private small- and large-scale producers offer considerable comparative advantages over government departments when it comes to growing trees and producing industrial wood in plantations. Consequently, there is a growing interest in involving the private sector directly in the development of forest plantations, and governments and their respective forestry agencies are increasingly asking what it takes to encourage non-government entities to grow trees and whether one incentive is more effective than another one.
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