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“Of the 52.45 million cubic metres, 6.5 million cubic metres is imported, 3.18 million cubic metres is from forests and 42.77 million cubic metres is from tree forests,” said Gera. Coimbatore: The Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (IFGTB) is planning to conduct a brainstorm in January-end with representatives of farmers and paper companies about the pulpwood demand and quantities of pulpwood required. “So farmers get their returns faster and trees are less vulnerable to price fluctuations and weather variations compared to other crops,” he added. “These clones take between three and six years to grow and have a high pulp quantity,” he said. For this we must incentivize growing of trees,” he said.Scientists are working on developing clones which grow faster and have high pulp quantity..