Why need Techology Development in Peat Soils?
Some people believe in certification to protect the natural environment such as in Berbak National Park and its buffer zone. (Certification means you pay the stakeholders when they protect the Natural Environment). May be that might help, but first of all, I believe, we need a technology in the degraded forests and bush lands in the swamps that is sustainable and profitable such that nobody will be interested in the wood of the protected forest areas. Otherwise the wood of the Natural Forest will remain an attractive income. The combination of certification and new economic forestry technologies might strengthen the effort to protect the original natural forest in peat swamp areas. On the Webpage Problems I explain the main problems in peat soil: hydrophobic peat and subsidence of peat soil below sealevel. The problem of hydrophobic peat soil is solved by planting tree crops instead of annual cropping. However the problem of subsidence is not solved. Oilpalm needs for instance a watert
