Contract Farming and Forest Management

guarantee at a pre-determined price at the end of eight years if the trees met certain Contract Farming quality specifications. The farmers were free to sell to others if they so wished. The loan instalments were not of equal amount and Forest Management and decreased annually over the eight Company-farmer Partnerships for the Supply of Raw Material to Wood-based Industry by Sushil Saigal and Divya Kashyap; India Country Sub-study published by Eco-tech Services (India), New Delhi and International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London; 2002.