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to implement policies on research and development programmes to ensure the growth and sustainability of the forest and forest-based industries;

to conduct and promote research on the multiple roles and functions of forests, including watershed, biotechnology, biodiversity and its sustainable use, conservation, ecotourism, greening of areas, effects of pollutants and climate change, appropriate for a rational and holistic approach to the sustainable and environmentally sound forest development;

to promote, stimulate, facilitate, undertake and commercialize research findings in order to develop and utilize effectively such research findings in the interest of development of forest-based industries;

to conduct and promote research on forest development including the production, extraction, processing, storage, transportation and utilization of forest produce, and other fields appropriate to the continued development of the forestry sector and the conservation of the resource base;

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to secure, where the public interest or the interest of forest development and forest-based industries so require, the development and advancement of research findings which appear to the Institute not to have been developed or explored or sufficiently developed or explored;

to control, co-ordinate and monitor the activities of any person undertaking research and development programmes and any other programmes, schemes, projects and activities financed wholly or mainly from the Fund;

to provide technical, advisory, consultancy and any other services in relation to forest and forest-based industries to any government, body or organization within or outside

Malaysia;

to administer and manage the Fund;

to collect, collate and disseminate information relating to research findings, forest development, forest produce and its utilization by way of publishing or sponsoring the publication of periodicals, journals, books, booklets and any other means available;

to provide courses of study and training programmes in the field of forestry or any other related fields, and to take such other actions as may appear necessary or desirable for education;

to act as a testing body and a certification body for forest produce upon being accredited as a conformity assessment body under the Standards of Malaysia Act 1996 [Act 549]

or being accredited by any other accreditation body outside Malaysia;

to liaise, co-ordinate and collaborate with the Federal

Government, any State Government or any body or organization in research and development programmes in the interest of the forest and forest-based industries including being members of any body or organization within and outside Malaysia; and

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to do such other things as the Institute thinks fit to enable it to perform its functions effectively or which are incidental to the performance of its functions.

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