The government hopes the project will expand forest areas in the country by 26 million rai (4 million hectares) over a decade, he added. He said the Cabinet has approved a draft directive to allow the use of trees with economic value on farmers’ lands as assets to guarantee loans. The project aims to in 10 years have created 20,000 communities, and 2.6 million families, growing revenue-producing trees. The government hopes that each family would, over a decade, grow at least 400 trees, for a total of 1.04 billion trees on 26 million rai. That would generate economic value of Bt10.4 billon a year, Surasak said.

Source: The Nation Bangkok September 08, 2018 09:04 UTC