Cartification can be seen as a one of the most important concrete step in context of sustainable forestry management. Since India, being the signatories of the IITO objectie 2000, have an obligation to ensure that every product in the international market comes from sustainable forest management areas by the year 2000. A general assessment has been done in that context to analysis the scope and potential of the same.
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