The Department of Forests in Vanuatu encourages lots of communities in Vanuatu through trainings and awareness on the species based on past researches done on this species and therefore farmers throughout the country have been planting Whitewood trees on their woodlots. Since it is a fast growing tree and due to the very high demand of its timber locally and internationally, Vanuatu government through the Department of Forests initiated a project on how to maximise the benefits of Whitewood grown in woodlots or plantation.
The current project is called “Enhancing Management and Processing Systems for Value-adding in plantation-grown Endospermum medullosum in Vanuatu is fully funded by ACIAR.