Crown Forestry is chasing unproductive farmland suitable for commercial planting of pinusradiata to help it meet the government's one billion trees program.
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The Government is to put money into a research project which aims to diversify New Zealand's forestry and reduce its reliance on pinusradiata.
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Pinusradiata, the mainstay of our forestry industry, grows rapidly here, gorging itself on carbon dioxide as it grows.