Karnataka to ease sandalwood cultivation rules

  • 03/06/2002

  • Business Line (New Delhi)

The Karnataka Government will come out with a new set of rules soon to liberalise sandalwood cultivation. The rules are part of a new thrust to tap the State's sandalwood wealth and are meant to curb the large-scale smuggling of the precious trees, the Forest and Ecology Minister, Mr. K H Ranganath, said. Under the new system, the grower will be paid after the sale of tree, the Government will continue to regulate cutting and transportation of the trees and will deduct this cost from the sale proceeds.