Aug 18, 2009. /Lesprom Network/. Wood producers and processors of Philippines want the government to create a marketing arm that will facilitate the entry of investors in the underdeveloped local forest industry, The Business World paper reported. "The government wants investments. We proposed to the Environment department that they should also focus on a marketing job instead of just a regulatory function," Antonio C. Olizon, president of the Philippine Wood Producers Association (PWPA), said yesterday in an interview at the sidelines of a forestry investment forum in Makati City. In the proposed scheme, Mr. Olizon said the Environment department should set up a marketing arm to package all potential investment areas in forestry, which would then be presented to investors. "When the project is already packaged, investors will just have to bring in their capital," he said. Oscar A. Gendrano, a consultant of community-based forest management projects, concurred, saying that "the marketing arm [of the government] will provide all the necessary information to all investors to come in easily."