Besides rubber, foreign companies have also invested in eucalyptus plantations. The largest investor is the Japanese pulp and paper Oji Paper, which received a land concession of 50,000 ha in the central region of Lao PDR, and applied for another 30,000 ha in the southern part of the country. Another large scale investor in the southern regions is Grassim-Birla Group of India. This company also received a 50,000-ha concession in the central region. More recently, the Scandinavian pulp and paper giant Stora Enso is seeking to obtain a 35,000 ha concession for planting eucalyptus in the southern region .