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Introduced to India in the 1980s by state forest corporations and private paper/pulp industries as a fast-growing, nitrogen-fixing exotic timber and paper-pulpwood crop, it is cultivated under managed farm forestry, industrial woodlots, and social forestry blocks in the high-rainfall and canal-irrigated agricultural belts of South and Central Gujarat (Valsad, Navsari, Surat, Bharuch, Anand, Vadodara)
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