Pakistan-German Cooperation in Forestry Research and Education at the Pakistan Forest Institute, 1981-1990
Pakistan-German Cooperation in Forestry Research and Education at the Pakistan Forest Institute, 1981-1990
K. M. Siddiqui
ABSTRACT
Pakistan inherited a very small forest area (4.5%) in 1947.
With the result that, over the years, a significant part of the
country's requirement of timber and wood products had to be
imported. At the same time, the pressure on the indigenous forest
resources continued to rise, increasing the demand for timber and
pushing up its price steeply. Until early seventies, the forests
in Pakistan were harvested by private contractors, who became
heavily involved in malpractices, and institution of private
contracts came into serious disrepute and was abolished. Since
mid-seventies all the provinces of Pakistan are carrying out their
timber harvesting and marketing either departmentally (Punjab and
Sindh) or through public corporations (NWFP and Azad Kashmir). In
the beginning, all these organizations were using tools and methods
of forest contractors because there were no arrangements within the
country to train the staff in improved methods of tree felling,
conversion and transportation and for conducting research to find
out the best methods for the local conditions.
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March 1990
Vol. 40, Iss. 1
