Logging :: An Integral Part Of Enhancing The “ GDP ” Through It’s Principle Of Preservation, Conservation , and Cultivation

Head Pic - :: A View Of Log Woods Piled Up As LOG 

Logging :: An Integral Part Of Enhancing The “ GDP ” Through It’s Principle Of  Preservation , Conservation and Cultivation 

Logging::

One might be very unusual in itself to talk and even think about logging which infact is the BONE in itself when it comes to constructions in terms of rehabilitation and buildings. Logging has been an ancient ART-OF-ECONOMY ever since the earth has seen the forestries and it’s preservations or maybe even the CULTIVATION-OF-THE-FOREST .

One might like to know ans ask or would try to find out WHAT IS LOGGING. One might  like to know HOW TO DEFINE LOGGING. In a materialistic terms one might know about logging but one hardly gives it any importance.

Logging is infact a very IMPORTANT ingredient of the AFTER-FORESTRY- ACTIVITY and it infact though it has not gained any importance in the annals of the Indian economy- it is in fact one of the most important constituent of the Indian Economy  and it definitely has a contribution which so far has been CRUELLY neglected by the world of Indian economy which keeps on and boast on the facts of GDP.

Infact the market of logging in India has been totally neglected by the marketers and by them who are the Master’s of Economics. Logging infact constitutes a heavy proportion of the national income in some of the advanced countries in the world and one of them is Canada , however in India despite of possessing a huge market, logging has not been seen as and has not been given any due importance at all when it comes to Economics.

What Is Logging - :

 Logging is the process of cutting and processing trees to produce timber and pulp to supply the world’s markets for furniture, construction, paper, and other products.

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Picture- : Logging in an condensation manner

What are the causes of logging-:

 Logging is the process in which trees are felled (cut down) usually as part of a timber harvest. ... Logging impacts the environment in two ways, the timber harvest itself, that is, the removal of trees from the forest, and secondly by the disturbance caused by logging operations.

The “ LOG ” market :: India Has The Potential Of Becoming The World’s Second largest Market

India infact has a kind of a forest which is very vast an big .The total coverage of the forest at india is 712,249 square kilometres ( 21.67 percent of India's total geographical area) ..slightly up from 708,273 sq. km (21.54 percent) in 2017. The tree cover of the country is 95,027 sq. km (2.89 percent of the total area) again slightly up from 93,815 sq

Now if this is compared to any country in the WORLD, then India stands NEXT to China and the forest produce in India in some of the cases outbeats China bot on the whole China beats India. For example  there are about 114 forest produces that grows in India every year which is more than China but overall the quantum of the forest produce though China might be low as compared to India when it comes to the variety , it produces more in terms of the volume and the quantum and thus India stands next to China.

Howe evr what is the contribution to the national GDP. It stands nowhere as compared to China. China’s logging contributes a whopping 2% of the GDP from the logging whereas India is poor and stands very low when it comes to the GDP contributed by the  by the logging/logs, and pitches itself very poor to the contribution of the GDP.

How Much Does The Logging Contributes To The Indian Economy ::

I can give the value of it upto the year 2017 as afterwards I have not received any information about the same and according to me the total contribution from the Forest and the loging in India stands at 1.66 trillions of Indian Rupee.

. Forestry and logging made up 1.66 trillion Indian rupees of agricultural gross value added in fiscal year 2017.  Of it the Loggig have contributed about 0.86 trillions, that gives us the importance of the money value but the question is WHAT ABOUT THE PERCENTAGE THAT IT COTRIBUTES TO THE INDIAN ECONOMY.

The answer is - : The Indian FORESTRY AND LOGGING IN TOTAL CONTRIBUTED ABOUT 1.7 % of which the logging has contributed to about 0.43% .This is just a little over HALF ( 56%) as compared to China. This speaks so very POOR about the contribution that comes to the Indian economy through the GDP. There was an increasing trend in the contribution from this sector since fiscal year 2013 but the overall picture still gives many a questions that needs explanation to the satisfaction and that explanation will never comes in terms of satisfying one and sundry.

The Future Of Logs and Logging - :

India has the potential to increase it’s GDP. There are a huge and a vast potential that India could pitch not only to project herself  as one of the fastest growing economy but India can outbeat in terms of having a GDP of over 10% plus per annum from the year 2021 and onward. That would make India very stable when it comes to  balancing it’s BALANCE OF PAYMENT as compared to the BALANCE OF TRADE. The logging industry has a potential itself to contribute to about 1%  at it’s minimum, to about 1.75% , ie to about doubling it contribution but that requires a THOROUGH  MEANS and eradication of all the CORRUPT method to achieve that .THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE AS THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY ALONG WITH THE MAFIA’S OF THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY IN HANDS WITH THE “ POLITICIANS ” DESTRUCTS THE LOG WOOD MARKET AND THE FOREST.

Potential Of The Wood Sector In India And Shortcomings-:

However, India's rapidly growing economy and vast army of low-cost labor indicates great potential for the wood products sector. In addition, forecasts of a rapid influx of rural workers into urban areas will likely mean, as it did in China, greatly increased demand for wood for housing construction and furnishings. Like China, India has a long-term shortage of wood supply, and although imports of wood and wood products into India are currently far behind China, all signs point to India as being the next big market for log and (perhaps) lumber imports.

The reason for the short term supply of the wood and the forest produce in terms of the wood is because of the fact that there has been a TREMENDOUS deforestation ever since 1970 and the way these forest have been converted into the lands and the kind of buildings and the residential houses have come in terms of the flats etc, the shortage of the woods and the trees have made the problems to showcase it’s galore.

Pic - :  Log Woods" contribution To The Indian Economy - ::
Please look at the right hand side  pie-chart depicted here in this picture . If you notice that you would find that the 1% pic tor as described and  depicted is full of black shade and that is the least that a pic chart can soak and absorb to depict as a pictorial . The pic tors less than 1% will not be depicted at all and hence the 0,86 % of the contribution of the log to the GDP of the Indian economy will never be depicted at all.
THIS REFLECTS AND THIS IS THE IN-HUMANE CONTRIBUTION OF THE " LOGS "  to the INDIAN ECONOMY for the GDP contribution 

Cutting and deforestation have never been replicated by the sowing of the plants and the trees and that shortages continued and still continues as a result that the  overall  contribution to the GDP from the LOGGING has been very poor.

RISI ( Resource Information Systems Inc )  measures the impact of China's demand on global wood and timber resources by monitoring its imports of logs and the roundwood equivalent of its imports of primary products, including lumber, wood panels, woodchips and wood pulp. This " timber deficit " in China grew at a compound annual rate of more than 16% between 1997 and 2009, to 105 million m³ of roundwood equivalent in the latter year -- roughly equal to Canada's reported total timber harvest that year. By comparison, India's timber deficit is quite small, only about one-twelfth the size of China's in 2009.

Now this is where this country, India has to study the CHINESE-CANADIAN modules to improvise it’s business in terms of growing the FORSET and the logs to first preserve it and then to sell it for having a resourceful contribution from that

Indian Economy : It Trails China By 13 years.

However, as The Economist points out in its cover story on India's economy, economic reforms in India trailed those in China by about 13 years. The Economist charts Indian and Chinese exports as a percent of GDP since the start of economic reforms, and the growth path for India is remarkably similar to China's. Indian log imports in 2009 were more than 50% higher than Chinese log imports were 13 years earlier in 1996. China is currently by far the world's largest import market for both softwood and hardwood logs, but if India's demand grows at even half the rate of China's over the past decade, then competition in the global log markets is going to become very intense in the future.

The Practise Of Logging Woods

The practice of logging ranges from large-scale commercial timber plantations to individuals harvesting fuelwood. While logging is important to regional economies and rural communities, if not managed properly, it can contribute to deforestation and forest degradation. As logging intensity (measured by m³ of industrial roundwood equivalent per hectare) increases, overall animal species richness tends to decline, though the effects on a particular species will differ, depending on the species’ environmental niche and its adaptability to environmental disturbances.

Threat To The Bio-Diversity - :

 The threat to the logging comes from not maintaining the logs at the places to protect it from the natural calamities which are generally caused to it by placing them in the open field for the rain water first and then the white-ants to destruct the same.

Water could be the greatest enemy of the woods and the logs that are kept after cutting the piles of the wood to log it for it’s sale and for it’s after use of the same fopr commercial purpose. Habitat loss is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity, especially in tropical rainforests where over 50% of all of the world’s documented animal and plant species are found. Logging also directly impacts soil and hydrological cycles, as the reduction in tree cover leads to increases in water runoff and soil erosion.

The Destruction at the “ macro-level ”

 At the macro level, deforestation by logging results in a reduction of carbon sequestration capacity, which in turn contributes to climate change. Deforestation from logging and timber conversion in the tropics accounts for approximately 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions annually. 

Ecological Impact Of Logging-:

The ecological impacts of logging depend on the type of logging or harvesting involved, and what purpose the logging is for. For instance, logging may take place to make room for infrastructure or plantation development, and the forest will be clearcut. Another example would be the selective logging of high-value timber species for commercial purposes. When considering timber plantations or managed forests, the type of harvesting and silviculture practices used are also relevant. 

Deforestation from clearcut logging is highly disruptive to biodiversity, whereas the effects of selective logging are less definitive. Due to the removal of seed sources, clearcut logging prevents the natural regrowth of endemic species. However, clearcut logging of natural forests in the tropics also occurs when farmers and ranchers are expanding cropland and pastures, and is not used as a means for sustained timber harvesting. With selective logging, only high-value species are felled for timber, but many smaller trees are damaged in the process. Selective logging also contributes to large scale forest fragmentation, altering forest micro-climates and making forests more vulnerable to fires, as well as affecting plant and animal species composition. The development of transportation infrastructure for logging also increases the degree of forest fragmentation, and allows for easier access to unlogged forests.

Impact Of Logging - :;

 When considering the impacts of logging, the impacts on natural forests are necessarily different from the impact on planted forests that are actively managed through silviculture. Poor harvesting and silviculture practices may lead to long term declines in timber yields and regeneration capacity, due to adverse effects on soil quality, as well as making planted forests more vulnerable to fires or disease. 

The demand for wood and paper products is expected to increase as developing countries industrialize, which will only put more pressure on forest ecosystems. Significant expansion in the adoption of sustainable forest management techniques and proper forest governance will likely be needed to ensure that forest commodities can be sustainably harvested.

This is my FIRST study and my presentation to this country and the Government that it needs to focus on the logs woods and make an effort  to sustain and then improve the conditions of the log woods in India.

It speaks very poor that a country which has the potential to extract out a bare minimum of about 2% in terms of getting it from the LOG WOODS gets only about 0.86% per annum from the same. How to come up to the expectation and the means not only to protect the log woods, but to increase it’s production as well as  volume beside preservation is the need for the Government to work on it.

India and it’s population is increasing and within another 10 years we will have a population of about 145 crores.

There would be a great need and demand both internally and internationally for the papers, as stationeries, for the housing and the real estates industries and for the purpose of also exports which constitutes the world market  as the world needs the log woods very badly for it’s existence.

India has a chance to maginify and become a STRONG-SECOND-BEST-PLAYER in the field of LOG WOOD-AND-FOREST and this is where India has to modenise it’s management and it’s science on the field of the LOGWOOD and FOREST.

India has a GREAT potential to become the SECOND BEST in the WORLD in the field of LOGGING-AND-FORESTRY but the SCIENCE of it needs a GREAT OVERTURN in terms of modernisation and revolution.

Regards

Pics : Shyamal Bhattacharjee

Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in    B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a      Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It  published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta  in 2012. He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing 

Shyamal Bhattacharjee