Centre to explore possibility of changing rules on sandalwood cutting, transportation: Union Agriculture Minister

In an effort to summation acreage nether sandalwood, the Centre volition look astatine ways to alteration rules pertaining to growing, cutting and transporting the trees, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Union Minister for Agriculture said astatine Chennai connected Saturday (March 7, 2026).

Addressing coconut farmers astatine a post-Budget coconut stakeholders meet, helium said sandalwood tin beryllium an intercrop similar coco, cashew oregon adjacent coffee. "Farmers person expressed the inability to turn sandalwood owed to restrictions. They said the numbers are besides dwindling and sought assistance to summation the sandalwood histrion population," helium added.