MARKETING OF FOREST PRODUCES

KFD undertakes marketing of various types of forest produces worth crores of Rupees every year through different disposal methods. Industrial raw materials like bamboos, reeds, Eucalyptus, etc are being allotted yearly to the industries like HNL, under mutually agreed conditions and sale prices. Softwood species like Elavu are being sold as standing trees, by outright sale through tender-cum- auction. In the case of Non Timber Forest Produces (NTFP), tribal people are allowed to collect them from the forests, through their co-operatives which are finally disposed by the Federation of SC/ST Societies. All other forest produces including timber, firewood, poles etc collected from forest plantations and dead trees from natural forests are sold by tender – cum auction method, through departmental depots or, in certain cases, through the concerned territorial Divisions.

Apart form the above, with a view to serve the common people, the government have recently introduced a system by which bonafide users constructing residential houses can directly purchase timber from selected depots paying the fixed price, without any other prescribed sale procedure already mentioned.

You can also purchase timber and other forest produces involved in forest offences by participating in the auction sale conducted in the respective Range Offices every month.

Reference : Kerala Forests & Wildlife Department Website