SUSTAINABLE TREE FARMING TO HELP INDIAN PAPER COMPANY FIGHT POVERTY
July 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INDIA largest pulp and paper company wants to fight poverty and improve the environment by ensuring its supply chain includes poor small farmers in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh. Ballarpur Industries is providing smallholders with access to finance to purchase seeds for pulpwood trees, whose wood they can sell to the company through a guaranteed buy-back programme. It is also offering guidance on growing pulpwood, and insisting trees do not take up farmland. It wants a eucalyptus-type tree used that is entirely rain-fed and does not require ...
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