<P> In 2002, forestry industry contributed 1.7% to India's GDP . In 2010, the contribution to GDP dropped to 0.9%, largely because of rapid growth of the economy in other sectors and the government's decision to reform and reduce import tariffs to let imports satisfy the growing Indian demand for wood products . India produces a range of processed forest (wood and non-wood) products ranging from wood panel products and wood pulp to make bronze, rattazikistan ware and pern resin . India's paper industry produces over 3,000 metric tonnes annually from more than 400 mills . The furniture and craft industry is another consumer of wood . India's wood - based processing industries consumed about 30 million cubic metres of industrial wood in 2002 . India annually consumes an additional 270 million tonnes of fuelwood, 2800 million tonnes of fodder, and about 102 million cubic meter of forest products - valued at about ₹ 27,500 crore (US $4.3 billion) a year . India is one of the world's largest consumer of fuel - wood . India's consumption of fuel - wood is about five times higher than what can be sustainably removed from forests . However, a large percentage of this fuel - wood is grown as biomass remaining from agriculture, and is managed outside forests . Fuel - wood meets about 40% of the energy needs of the country . Around 80% of rural people and 48% of urban people use fuel - wood . Unless India makes major, rapid and sustained effort to expand electricity generation and power plants, the rural and urban poor in India will continue to meet their energy needs through unsustainable destruction of forests and fuel wood consumption . India's dependence on fuel - wood and forestry products as a primary energy source is not only environmentally unsustainable, it is a primary cause of India's near - permanent haze and air pollution . </P> <P> Forestry in India is more than just about wood and fuel . India has a thriving non-wood forest products industry, which produces latex, gums, resins, essential oils, flavours, fragrances and aroma chemicals, incense sticks, handicrafts, thatching materials and medicinal plants . About 60% of non-wood forest products production is consumed locally . About 50% of the total revenue from the forestry industry in India is in non-wood forest products category . In 2002, non-wood forest products were a source of significant supplemental income to over 400 million people in India, mostly rural . </P> <P> In 1840, the British colonial administration promulgated an ordinance called Crown Land (Encroachment) Ordinance . This ordinance targeted forests in Britain's Asian colonies, and vested all forests, wastes, unoccupied and uncultivated lands to the crown . The Imperial Forest Department was established in India in 1864 . The British state monopoly over Indian forests was first asserted through the Indian Forest Act of 1865 . This law simply established the government's claims over forests . The British colonial administration then enacted a further far - reaching Forest Act of 1878, thereby acquiring the sovereignty of all wastelands which in its definition included all forests . This Act also enabled the administration to demarcate reserved and protected forests . In the former, all local rights were abolished while in the latter some existing rights were accepted as a privilege offered by the British government to the local people which can be taken away if necessary . These colonial laws brought the forests under the centralised sovereignty of the state . Sir Dietrich Brandis, the Inspector General of Forests in India from 1864 to 1883, is regarded as the father not only of modern scientific forestry in India, but also as the "father of tropical forestry ." </P> <P> An FAO report claims it was believed in colonial times that the forest is a national resource which should be utilised for the interests of the government . Like coal and gold mines, it was believed that forests belonged to the state for exploitation . Forest areas became a source of revenue . For example, teak was extensively exploited by the British colonial government for ship construction, sal and pine in India for railway sleepers and so on . Forest contracts, such as that of biri pata (leaves of Diospyros melanoxylon), earned so much revenue that it was often used by the people involved in this business as a leverage for political power . These contracts also created forest zamindars (government recognised forest landowners). Additionally, as in Africa, some forests in India were earmarked by the government officials and the rulers with the sole purpose of using them for hunting and sport for the royalty and the colonial officials . </P>

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