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| | CSIRO - China honours Australian eucalypt scientist |
 | | It is also a focus for China's expanding resource of commercial eucalypt plantations and associated industry and is the base for the China Eucalypt Research Centre. |
 | | China has been growing eucalypts for more than 120 years, and has in excess of 800 000 ha of eucalypt plantations and an even larger area under the '4-around' plantings - around the houses, villages, roads and canals. |
 | | "We both have decreasing access to native forests, increasing reliance upon plantations - particularly eucalypts, we export rather than value add, we need to develop new markets and acceptance of eucalypt wood, we need to substitute for imports, and we have a commitment to landcare and sustainable management of plantation and water resources," he says. |
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