Peru President Alan Garcia has criticized those who question Peru’s active natural resource utilisation, and emphasized the need for Peru to continue its utilisation of such resources, the Tropical Forest Trust reported. President of Peru’s Exporters Association Lumber Committee, Herbert Frey, said exporters in the sector accepted the President’s challenge to better use natural resources, but pointed out that it would only be possible with the active participation of the state, the report stated.

He added that Peruvian exporters were capable of meeting challenges as stated by the President, which would make it possible for Peru to export $3 billion per year in the first five years of implementation, with the possibility of generating $7 billion by 2017. The participation of the state should help design solutions using normative and technical methods to control the resources of the Peruvian Amazon, according to the TFT report.