The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
The Forest department of the State has undertaken an ambitious project of bamboo plantation to strengthen the economic foundation of the State. Talking to mediapersons recently at Nagaon, Rockybul Hussain, Forest Minister told that his department would plant bamboo on 2000 hectares of land around Guwahati through the Bamboo Mission. …
Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited, the third largest entity in the Indian Paper Industry operating with three large integrated paper mills each with installed capacity of 1,00,000 ton paper per annum. Two are directly managed Units in Asom
The poor man's timber, bamboo, is no longer the orphan crop. It is gradually engaging the attention of the government, which has planned to diversify its uses to reap the benefits in the $7.5 billion global bamboo product market. India is the second richest bamboo resource country in the world, …
POLICE in the city are in an unenviable position as sandalwood trees continue to be the target of thieves who smuggle them to Kerala, from where they are taken to other states. This despite various measures taken by them to bust the smuggler gangs. Police sources said some time back …
Brazil Making Condoms To Stem Amazon Losses, AIDS BRAZIL: April 8, 2008 BRASILIA - The Brazilian government began producing condoms on Monday using rubber from trees in the Amazon, a move it said would help preserve the world's largest rainforest and cut dependence on imported contraceptives given away to fight …
Honey collection in Sundarban begins Tapos Kanti Das . Khulna Honey collection in Sundarban began on April 1 and the Sundarban forest division has started distribution permits for honey collection. The department, however, imposed a ban on honey collection from the east division of the forest. Honey collection in Sundarban …
South African rural coastal communities have utilised mangrove products for generations. However, the factors determining use are poorly understood and utilisation is rarely acknowledged in natural resource management. Since the post-apartheid government came to power in 1994, there has been a paradigm shift in government forest policy, and Participatory Forest …
Forests are extensively used by rural people for subsistence in the tropics. Biomass extraction (like grazing, fuelwood collection and collection of non-timber forest produce) is arguably the most widespread form of anthropogenic pressure in developing countries like India. Persistent extraction may alter forest structure and composition, which in turn may …
The Kerala government has decided to amend the terms of auction of timber and other forest products from government depots and forest ranges for speedy realisation of revenues. The new stipulations, finalised at a high-level meeting convened by Forest Minister Benoy Viswom, specifies that successful bidders would have to pay …
In a bid to boost the production of bamboo, considered to be an important cash crop, the National Bamboo Mission is training about 30 farmers of Golaghat, Sivasagar and Jorhat districts at composite training centre here. The three-day training underway at the centre is being conducted by resource persons of …
"It is a great moment for me to come to Nagaland today with a purpose and a mission to revive in dealing with the Nagaland Paper & Pulp Company (NPPC) and to physically see and to get the first hand impression about the unit so that we could jointly work …
Three new afforestation schemes were started last year including Urja Van Yojana, Charagah Vikas Yojana and Vidya Van Yojana in the state. These schemes have yielded excellent results following which the target for these schemes for the next financial year has been increased. There is a big gap between demand …
The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) has estimated that if adequate market infrastructure is set up the northeastern India, within a span of 10 years, can garner $ one billion out of the total global market of $ 7 billion for bamboo-rhino value chain. The regional planning …
The three-day residential training programme on modern bamboo structure and housing organised by Cane and Bamboo Technology Centre (CBTC) in collaboration with Building Material and Technology Promotion Council (BMPTC), ended successfully at Kohra, Kaziranga recently. The seminar was held recently with the main objective to provide technical know-how on the …
Tripura government is contemplating to utilise unused land across the state to make the state one of the major rubber producing states around the globe. The landlocked state, which has already become the second largest producing state in the country, will emerge as one of the best rubber producing zones …
Wizened old Jidemadamma has to depend on her neighbours for meals. Her son and daughter-in-law have gone to Kodagu to collect pepper from trees and will not be back before two weeks. “They took the children along because I cannot move around much. Earlier, all of us stayed together here. …
Northeastern states have exported bamboo products worth Rs 24.85 Crore in 2006-07, which was Rs 17.28 crore in 2005-06 and Rs 14.18 Crore in 2004-05, newly appointed Industry and Commerce Minister of sixth Left Front Government in Tripura Jitendra Choudhury yesterday said. He said bamboo and cane products of North-east …
The National Steering Committee (NSC) of the National Bamboo Mission (NBM), held under the chairmanship of the Secretary (Agriculture & Cooperation), Govt of India, on January 17, 2008, had approved an amount of Rs 36 lakh for establishment of an R&D; centre on bamboo cultivation for non-forest areas at Biswanath …
