Encroachment of forested lands have been halted and allowed to go fallow for the past three years under an agreement with farmers that they would trial these new farming methods and determine if they could improve their economic returns. If successful, the smart forests team will replant the encroached lands to plantation at a later date. A part of this agreement was a small payment through the PES scheme for protecting those forest areas with the payment to increase in value and volume each year the landowners don't encroach on those lands.