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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (3616)	10/31/2004 9:31:19 PM
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Firm barks up tree for paper A company founded by a former communist youth revolutionary has bred a fast-growing poplar that can help meet China’s massive demand for paper and reduce deforestation in the country. Guangzhao Industrial Forest has used tissue culture to breed a strain of poplar — whose fibre is used to make paper — that can mature in four to five years, less than half the 10-12 years it normally takes to grow in the wild. The rate of maturity for the “Guangzhao Fast-Growing Poplar” is faster than poplar breeds cultivated in North America which can take six to seven years, officials of the Singapore-listed company told AFP. And in a recent breakthrough, Guangzhao Industrial Forest scientists successfully tested a poplar strain with a high salt-tolerance level, allowing the plant to be grown in China’s vast arid lands. The success is significant for the company because China has wide tracts of land that are either too salty or arid for most forms of cultivation. With most provinces willing to offer these barren lands for cultivation without cost, Guangzhao Industrial Forest can saturate wide areas with its poplars virtually for free, company officials and industry analysts said. The company expects to fell the first mature poplars, up to 12 metres (40 feet) high, next year for sale as timber to pulp companies. afp dailytimes.com.pk