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SA forestry hopes to capitalise on COVID-19-related opportunities

After the tumultuous 2020 experienced by South Africa’s timber growers and value chain, prospects for 2021 were gradually improving, according to Philip Day, chairperson of NCT Forestry Co-operative (NCT).

Day said it appeared that China was leading a gradual recovery of wood pulp prices on the

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