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Sh Prakash Javadekar\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Honourable Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Subject:\u00a0 Identify & Recognise Farm Produced wood as Agro-produce and recognize Plywood & Panel Industries Sector as Agro-based industry sector.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Necessity & Importance of Recognition :<\/strong> India has some of the best institutes in the world such as the Forest Research Institute<\/strong> (FRI) Dehradun, under ICFRE<\/strong> to develop and promote plantation timber under Agro-Forestry, Indian Plywood Industries Research & Training Institute<\/strong> (IPIRTI \u2013 MoEFCC) to impart updated training and testing. And up skilling youngsters for sector competency.<\/p>\n In this regard, I on behalf of AIPMA request you to consider the fact that how a tree grown by a farmer in his agricultural land can be considered as forest produce?<\/strong> Our country needs to immediately resolve this ambiguity of representation of raw material, in order to bring permanent clarity on the matter. The plywood and panel industry is entirely independent of forests based raw materials.<\/strong><\/p>\n As stated during a sector webinar by Federation of Indian Plywood & Panel Industries<\/strong> (FIPPI) Chairman<\/strong> & Century Plywoods (I) Ltd Chairman Shri Sajjan Bhajanka Ji<\/strong>-China & India have relatively similar populations, yet China produces 200 Million Cubic Meters (CBM) of plywood & panel products, and India is yet to achieve 20 Million CBM (1\/10\u092b\u093f\u0932\u0939\u093e\u0932<\/sup>). So where are we lagging?<\/p>\n The period during 2016-2019 has seen an Export-Import gap of 31, 655 Crores in the wood based industries sector<\/strong> (Pandey & Roy, 2020), which is a big drain on our foreign currency resources. We believe this gap can be immediately arrested together, with timely action. Treating \u00a0Farm-produce timber as agro-products, and thereby recognizing plywood & panel sector industries as Agro-based industries will hugely benefit all the stakeholders, especially the farmers. It would pave the way for easier certification and standardization of the industry sector, making Indian Plywood & Panel Industries Sector more export competitive.<\/strong><\/p>\n Benefit & Consequences of recognition as agro based indstury:<\/strong><\/p>\n We are awaiting your kind & prompt action to promote & develop an internationally competitive and fully developed plywood & panel indstry sector in India.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr.Naresh Tewari\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>Chairman,\u00a0<\/strong>All India Plywood Manufacturers Association\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n (Excerpts from the letter)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To Sh Prakash Javadekar\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[746],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news-august-2020"],"yoast_head":"\n\n