Wood products in Nepal

The main traded wood products are logs, sawn timber, poles, posts and fuel wood. Wood removal refers to the amount of round wood, sawn timber and wood fuel sold by the Department of Forests (DoF), The Timber Corporation of Nepal (TCN), the Forest Product Development Board (FPDB) and Community Forest User Groups (FUGs). Round wood removal statistics ranges from 24.36 000 cubic metres in 1992/93 to 80.54 000 m3 in 2002/03. Similarly, the figure for fuelwood was 20.79 000 m3 in 2005/06 up from 178.13 m3 in 1992/93. The amount of wood and fuel wood consumed per annum in the country is estimated at 2.2 million m3 and 11,623 million kg. In 2001, the total production of industrial round wood and fuel wood was 0.15 million m3 and 0.95 million m3 respectively. Similarly, the consumption of industrial round wood and fuel wood was 0.1 million m3 and 0.92 million m3 respectively.[Source: http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/am250e/am2… ]