New pricing policy pinches saw-millers
With saw-millers not willing to supply timber at the new commercial rate fixed by the government in January, Trashigang is facing a timber shortage. Saw-millers in the dzongkhag Kuensel spoke to said they had stopped supplying timber as they had been losing money in the business. They said that business had become erratic ever since the government's new timber pricing policy came into effect. Ever since the new rule came into force, not many saw-millers have attended the logging auctions held once a month in Mongar. Most sawmills are out of logs.