A Study on Development of Plantation of Forest and Forest-based Industry in Bangladesh

Abstract

The development of forest plantation and forest-based industry in Bangladesh has an important role in forest resource management and wood supply. Plantation of forests will have to provide an increasingly larger share of the timber supply in near future. Technology, shortage of supply and marketing problems are emerging in this sector. The development of industrial forest plantation is focused on meeting the needs of timber for houses, furniture. Fast growing plant species may be planted extensively. It is known to almost all educated persons that about 25% (one forth) of land of a country should be under forest. According to government opinion and judgment, the forest area of Bangladesh is 17.50% at present, on the other hand, according to FAO of UNO; the forest area of Bangladesh is only 10% of total area of Bangladesh. Government policy is to promote forest land area up to 20% within 2015 (P-25). But, there is a doubt whether the government will be successful in achieving the target as deprived person and scoundrel are destroying and making empty of the forest land to become rich in short time through illegal manner.