A STUDY ON TIMBER MARKETING IN SALEM
Journal Title: International Journal of Marketing and Technology - Year 2012, Vol 2, Issue 7
Abstract
Timber has been used for thousands of years as a building material for homes, bridges, fences, barns and furniture. Building with timber is cost effective, aesthetically pleasing, and environmentally responsible. Artists can use timber to create delicate sculptures. Timber has long been used as an artistic medium. It has been used to make sculptures and carvings for centuries. It is also used in woodcut printmaking, and for engraving. Certain types of musical instruments, such as the xylophone and marimba, are made mostly or entirely of wood. In Salem, the timber merchants purchase the timber products from Kerala, Thenkaasi, and Pavoorchathram and even from foreign countries. The timber market consists of a chain of vertical interaction involving importers, canvassing agents, wholesalers, brokers, retailers, carpenters and the final consumers. The real estate market has recently revived, which has given a boost to all-round demand for timber and panel products. Until 1982, India was a net exporting country of wood and wood products. But after independence, the forest cover has dropped at an alarming rate - from 23% to8% - prompting the government to drastically ban cutting trees in Indian forests. The government allows imports of wood and wood products in a phased manner and ban exports. By 1985, all imports of wood and wood based products were permitted freely, and since then theforest cover has improved from 8% to 24%. This policy continues till date and India is a net importer of timber and panel products. India regularly imports logs, raw timber and panel products from New Zealand; Malaysia (mainly Sabah and Sarawak); Indonesia; Myanmar; Ghana; Nigeria; Cameroon; Benin; Togo; the Congo; Brazil; Ecuador; Panama; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Venezuela; the US; and Canada. Many of these countries are exporting plantation materials. India has four climatic zones: alpine; temperate; subtropical; and tropical. The forests of India are sub-divided into 16 forest types producing over 600 species out of which about 200 provide commercial timber. Coniferous forests of pine, cedar, fir and spruce and non-coniferous oak forests are located along the Himalayan range. The international timber business has a wide variety of species available to them in different regions of India. Now the extractions from natural forests have been very much restricted and people are using many imported species. Indian importers go abroad seeking substitutes for Indian species and often introduce new species successfully.
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K. Navarathinam and S. Anbu Selvi
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