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Timber wastes land

• 30/03/2009
• Down To Earth

Government move to allow pulp trees on degraded land not sound

PRIVATE paper mills may soon be allowed to develop wasteland as plantations for pulpwood. S P Maurya, director, department of industrial policy and promotion, indicated this at the PapAsia 2009 conference on pulp, paper conversion and packaging industry held in early February.
Only government-owned companies are now allowed to grow pulpwood

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  • Environment
  • Agroforestry
  • Paper and Pulp Industry
  • Farmers
  • Private Sector
  • Government Of India (GOI)
  • CSE
  • Environmentalists
  • India

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