TNPL officers drove house the potential for sustained earnings era by elevating pulpwood bushes at an orientation programme for potential cultivators organised by a Farmer Producer Company at Periyanaickenpalayam not too long ago.
According to G. Ranganathan, Director of the Business Division of Palamalai Farmers Producer Company Limited, the agro-climatic situation in Coimbatore was appropriate for elevating casuarina and ‘malai vembu’ (Melia Dubia) to ship sustained earnings for cultivators.
The TNPL has, to date, been sourcing pulpwood beneath contract settlement with farmers in Ariyalur, Villupuram, Pudukottai, Karur and Tiruchi districts. In the final twenty years, farmers in Tiruppur district had been additionally roped in by the TNPL for contract cultivation of pulpwood bushes.
Through forming a community, FPOs in Coimbatore district see risk for liaising between farmers and TNPL, Mr. Ranganathan stated.
In the backdrop of inadequacy of manpower for agriculture, farmers might be excited about utilising fallow land for elevating the pulpwood tree plantations via drip-irrigation paraphernalia, he stated.
According to a TNPL official, there was immense potential for elevating pulpwood in Coimbatore district. The TNPL educates and trains farmers in trendy know-how in pulp wooden farming, extending a buy-back assurance with minimal assist value.
The firm offers high-yielding site-specific clones to extend productiveness in plantations. It has analysis linkages with Forest College & Research Institute (FCRI), Mettupalayam, beneath Tamil Nadu Agriculture University and Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (IFGTB), Coimbatore, beneath ICFRE (Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education).
As per official knowledge, TNPL has during the last 21 years, reached out to 58,077 farmers for pulpwood cultivation in 2,82,321 lakh acres in Tamil Nadu.
Published – October 13, 2025 07:43 pm IST
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