Increasing population, agriculture, urbanisation and industrialisation have been pinpointed as the major causes for the rapid depletion of the forest cover in Assam. The State Forest Department has estimated that out of a growing stock of forest products of roughly 304.4 million cubic metres(cum), the total annual demand has been roughly 8.3 million cum.Of the growing stock the aveerage annual increment is put at 6.06 million cum.