Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study: Sources of Non Wood Fibre for Paper, Board and Panels Production - Status, Trends and Prospects for India

P.M. Ganapathy
Bangalore
India

ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK STUDY
WORKING PAPER SERIES
ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY TOWARDS 2010

Working Paper No: APFSOS/WP/10

FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Forestry Policy and Planning Division, Rome
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok

August 1997

The Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study is being undertaken under the auspices of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission.
This report comes under Workplan Number E25.4(E)(i)

This electronic document has been scanned using optical character recognition (OCR) software and careful manual recorrection. Even if the quality of digitalisation is high, the FAO declines all responsibility for any discrepancies that may exist between the present document and its original printed version.

INFORMATION NOTE ON ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK STUDY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION

1. NON WOOD AND RECYCLED FIBRE: THE CONTEXT IN WHICH THEIR UTILIZATION IS DEVELOPING

1.1 Rationale
1.2 Pulp and Paper Industry

1.2.1 Current installed capacity, production and demand
1.2.2 Estimated future demand of paper and newsprint
1.2.3 Raw material requirement

1.3 Panels

1.3.1 Plywood
1.3.2 Particleboard
1.3.3 Fibreboard
1.3.4 Medium density fibreboard

1.4 Estimated wood raw material requirement and availability

1.4.1 Wood budget
1.4.2 Tree plantations
1.4.3 National Forest Policy 1988
1.4.4 Measures taken by the Government to meet the problems of wood shortage

2. NON WOOD AND RECYCLED FIBRE UTILIZATION: CURRENT SITUATION

2.1 Non Wood Fibre Sources

2.1.1 Current situation with respect to non wood fibre utilization

2.2 Recycled Fibre

3. THE FUTURE OF NON WOOD AND RECYCLED FIBRE: OUTLOOK 2010

3.1 The Problems in Foreseeing the Future Scenario
3.2 Pulp and Paper Sector: Outlook 2010

3.2.1 Forest based sources segment
3.2.2 Agricultural residues based segment

3.3 Recycled fibre based segment
3.4 Panels sector

ANNEX 1 - CHARACTERISTICS OF NON WOOD FIBRE SOURCES

ANNEX 2 - PROPERTIES OF NON WOOD FIBRE SOURCES UTILIZABLE FOR PAPER MAKING

ANNEX 3 - PROPERTIES OF PARTICLEBOARD MADE FROM ABUNDANTLY AVAILABLE NON WOOD SOURCES

ANNEX 4 - AFFORESTATION/PLANTATION UNDERTAKEN IN VARIOUS PRODUCTION FORESTRY/SOCIAL FORESTRY SCHEMES

REFERENCES

List of Working Papers already released

Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study: Sources of Non Wood Fibre for Paper, Board and Panels Production - Status, Trends and Prospects for India

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