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33. Without such a plan, there will be a decided possibility of lay¬ 
ing up difficulties for our successors. The 
me “ ffiCUltieSin£utUremanaSe ' silvicultural management of these planta¬ 
tions 20 years hence will not be a simple 
matter anyhow. The locality presents us with an intense interming¬ 
ling of areas of very different growing capacity (i.e., the ravine bottoms 
on the one hand, and the dry slopes and plateaux on the other hand) 
this will result in mixed crops, with valuable hardwoods in the ravines 
(shisham, tun Cedrela Toona , etc.), and the less valuable babul, Cassia 
auriculata and possibly Anogeissus latijolia, on the slopes and plateaux. 
The babul will be felled largely as poles (possibly treated as coppice), 
while the valuable species will probably be grown to large timber; 
thus the rotations will be very different. The physical conditions 
preclude the possibility of growing extensive areas of one species only, 
and this fact renders the preparation of a carefully thought out 
working plan all the more necessary. 
34. When this afforestation work was started, the original idea was 
to grow pure or almost pure babul, the chief 
aeveral in “ ng P^t from which lies in the value of the 
bark for tanning. But the tanning industry 
is limited, while the possibilities of babul bark production are almost 
unlimited, and it would be a dangerous policy to base our hopes on one 
species only with the possibility of over production. Moreover there 
are other industries to be considered also, which require only the raw 
material to show a great development, while the demand for poles and 
constructional timber is always growing and efforts should be made 
to try and meet it. Hence the necessity for continuing our experi¬ 
mental introduction of valuable timber species, even at the risk of com¬ 
plicating the subsequent silvicultural management. 
When the plantations begin to be felled over, new industries and 
new demands for labour and employment will be created* to the general 
well-being of the surrounding community. 
35. It has already been recorded that the waste and uncultural 
lands in the Provinces as a whole exceed 8 million acres. The area 
of ravine lands demarcated for plantation work in the Afforestation 
Division total only 20,000 acres, of which less than 3,000 acres have 
so far been done, and as results so far obtained become more widely 
known, owners of waste lands will begin (and have in fact already 
begun) to show great interest in the possibilities of afforestation of 
their at present profitless lands. Large landowners, Court of Wards 
estates, Cantonment, Kail way, and Canal authorities, Improvement 
Trusts in the large towns ; all these and others have already initiated 
enquiries or asked for expert advice on the possibility of creating planta¬ 
tions for profit. Unquestionably there is a great expansion coming 
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