Forestry and

Logging: Exploring
the Wild

Section C, Group 2
Manali Chakrabarty 17PGP180

Yugam Bansal 17PGP202

Akshya Kumar 17PGP206

Anirudh Nagaraja 17PGP240

Om Prakash Jha 17PGP246

 Brief Overview
• Approx. 4 billion hectares of forested land globally and 71 million
hectares in India

• Deforestation trend globally but in India forest cover is either same

or increasing over the past decade

• Forestry contributes to 1% of GDP globally and 2% in India

• Fuel wood and pulp for paper are the two major products. Others
are medicinal plants, resins, latex, fragrance and aroma chemicals
 Continued….
• The forestry market is highly segregated and unorganised. No clear
market leaders have emerged

• Majority population depends on forests for fuel either directly or

indirectly

• 275 to 350 million livelihoods depend on forest industry

• Logging Industry uses outdated machinery and suffers from

corruption and illegal trade.