Industrial Plantation will be treated as forestry activities

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has given a major boost to Mysore Paper Mills (MPM) by clarifying that industrial plantations will be treated as forestry activities, provided they are carried out in line with approved working or management plans.

Earlier, amended guidelines under the Forest (Conservation) Act had classified low-rotation plantations as non-forestry activities. Due to this, about 5,000 acres of mature plantations were kept on hold, This clarification enables MPM to restart plantation activities on nearly 56,000 acres of forest land.

Following representations from Karnataka—and similar requests from Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttarakhand—the matter was reviewed by the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC).

The committee clarified that plantations undertaken by state governments under approved working plans, with the objective of forest restoration and sustainable use, cannot be treated as purely commercial or non-forestry. As a result, such plantation activities will now be officially regarded as forestry operations under state forest department supervision.

The committee also empowered state governments to design frameworks for plantation use and revenue sharing on a case-by-case basis.

Overall, the decision provides significant regulatory relief.

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