Sindh province has a total of 1.088 million hectares under forests, out of which 0.261 million ha. comprise of the riverine forests and 0.0704 million hectares are irrigated plantations, while the rest of the 0.756 million ha. constitute mangrove forests (0.288 million ha) and range lands (0.467 million ha), only about 30% of the total forest area falls under productive category while the rest of the area is of protective nature. Riverine and irrigated forest plantations, the productive category constitute about 2.3 percent of total land area of the province.