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The Project Areas / The New Forests Company
The New Forests Company has rapidly established itself as Uganda’s biggest tree planter with 54,000 acres of forestry land and is emerging as the country’s pre-eminent sustainable forestry company. The company is now operational on three plantations across the country in Mubenbe, Kiboga and the Bugiri districts and will have, by the end of 2008, planted 15,000 acres of pine and eucalyptus. The company is currently exploring new ways to generate early revenues in 2008-2009.
Conceived in 2004, and operational from 2005 in Uganda, The New Forests Company is:
- Establishing commercial and profitable timber plantations of fast growing tree species, indigenous and exotic, which have adapted well to Uganda's environment.
- Protecting the remaining natural forests that occur along streams and restoring and regnerating those forests that have been destroyed by encroachers.
- Providing employment and development to rural communities where unemployment levels are very high.
- Meeting Uganda’s national development priorities for investment in agro-industry, poverty allieviation and rural development.
In the current year, 2008, the company will plant almost 4,5 million trees, bringing our total tree stock by year end to approximately 8.5-9 million (or 15,000 acres). The trees, pine and eucalyptus, will supply sawn timber and building and transmission poles. The company is not only planting commercial species on suitable soils, but will also regenerate badly destroyed existing indigenous trees species like Albizia, Melicia Excelsior and Markhamia as part of the bio-diversity conservation goals. This is in order to rehabilitate the heavily damaged water catchment area.
Sustainable commercial forestry and the protection and promotion of bio-diversity is combined with a carefully designed programme of community participation and benefit which aims to create jobs, boost rural incomes, help lower levels of poverty, improve health and develop a thriving local private sector. The workforce is expected to reach approximately 1800 this year.
Works In Progress - Nursery |
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| Long Shot of the Nursery | Eucalyptus Seedlings |
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| Filling Sleeves | Filling Seedbeds |
Works In Progress - Land Operations |
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| Road Construction | Our Clearing Team |
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| Bush Clearing | Chemical Spraying |
Languages: English, Swahili, Luganda
President: Yoweri Museveni
Area: 236,040 km2
Population in 2007: 28,816,000
Currency: Ugundan Shilling (UGX)
