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Dr. C.N. Manjunath, Bengaluru Rural MP, has urged the Union authorities to found a abstracted nationalist Sandalwood Board to code the concerns of sandalwood growers crossed the country.
Raising the contented successful the precocious concluded Parliament, Dr. Manjunath said Karnataka, known arsenic the “land of sandalwood”, accounts for astir 65% of India’s full sandalwood production, highlighting the crop’s cultural, accepted and economical value to the State.
He pointed retired that sandalwood cultivation, harvesting and selling are presently regulated by varying policies crossed States, resulting successful procedural difficulties for growers. The deficiency of azygous regulations had created challenges successful securing permissions from Forest and Home Departments, affecting cultivation, harvest and sale, helium said.
On lines of Coffee Board
The cardiologist-turned-politician said a national-level Sandalwood Board, connected the lines of the Coffee Board and arsenic recommended by NITI Aayog, would bring azygous cardinal authorities governing sandalwood cultivation, commercialized and marketing.
The projected board, helium said, would promote farmers to instrumentality up sandalwood cultivation by providing a transparent and farmer-friendly regulatory framework. It would besides facilitate unfastened marketplace access, fortify anti-theft measures, amended entree to organization credit, and heighten transparency successful sandalwood import and export.
He besides met Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and submitted a memorandum seeking the constitution of the board, outlining the concerns of sandalwood growers. He said the projected assemblage would assistance amended farmers’ incomes and beforehand sustainable maturation of the sandalwood sector.
