Intensification of Forestry Production through "Area Selection"

It is by now quite clear that our country may well be confronted with an acute shortage of industrial wood unless far-reaching steps are taken to expedite the increase in its production. Two Reports by experts of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the " United Nations as well as the estimates made in the Fourth Five-Year Plan for the country speak of the probable shortages. As against the current production of eight million cubic metres of industrial wood per year, the requirment has been estimated to increase to about 17 million cubic metres by 1970-71 and 24 million cubic metres by 1975-76.