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- Forestry_in_India abstract "Forestry in India is a significant rural industry and a major environmental issue.Dense forests once covered India. As of 2002, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations estimates India's forest cover to be about 64 million hectares, or 19.5% of the country's area. However, in terms of availability of forest land per person in India, the rate is one of the lowest in the world at 0.08 ha, against an average of 0.5 ha for developing countries and 0.64 ha for the world. Forest degradation is a matter of serious concern.In 2002, forestry industry contributed 1.7% to India's GDP. In 2010, the contribution to GDP dropped to 0.9 %, largely because of rapid growth of the economy in other sectors and the government's decision to reform and reduce import tariffs to let imports satisfy the growing Indian demand for wood products.India produces a range of processed forest (wood and non-wood) products ranging from wood panel products and wood pulp to make bronze, rattazikistan ware and pern resin. India's paper industry produces over 3,000 metric tonnes annually from more than 400 mills. The furniture and craft industry is another consumer of wood.India's wood-based processing industries consumed about 30 million cubic metres of industrial wood in 2002. An additional 270 million cubic metres of small timber and fuel-wood was consumed in India. An important cause for suboptimal wood use is its relatively low price because of subsidies on wood raw materials and free fuel-wood supply.India is the world's largest consumer of fuel-wood. India's consumption of fuel-wood is about five times higher than what can be sustainably removed from forests. However, a large percentage of this fuel-wood is grown as biomass remaining from agriculture, and is managed outside forests. Fuel-wood meets about 40 % of the energy needs of the country. Around 80 % of rural people and 48 % of urban people use fuel-wood. Unless India makes major, rapid and sustained effort to expand electricity generation and power plants, the rural and urban poor in India will continue to meet their energy needs through unsustainable destruction of forests and fuel wood consumption.India's dependence on fuel-wood and forestry products as a primary energy source is not only environmentally unsustainable, it is claimed to be the primary cause of India's near-permanent haze and air pollution.Forestry in India is more than just about wood and fuel. India has a thriving non-wood forest products industry, which produces latex, gums, resins, essential oils, flavours, fragrances and aroma chemicals, incense sticks, handicrafts, thatching materials and medicinal plants. About 60 % of non-wood forest products production is consumed locally. About 50 % of the total revenue from the forestry industry in India is in non-wood forest products category. In 2002, non-wood forest products were a source of significant supplemental income to over 400 million people in India, mostly rural.".
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- Forestry_in_India comment "Forestry in India is a significant rural industry and a major environmental issue.Dense forests once covered India. As of 2002, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations estimates India's forest cover to be about 64 million hectares, or 19.5% of the country's area. However, in terms of availability of forest land per person in India, the rate is one of the lowest in the world at 0.08 ha, against an average of 0.5 ha for developing countries and 0.64 ha for the world.".
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