Forestry Commission of Ghana to promote legal timber for domestic market

Nov 26, 2010. /Lesprom Network/. The Forestry Commission of Ghana is working together with Tropenbos International to develop policy recommendations for enhancing production and trade in legally harvested timber for the domestic market, ITTO reported. The initiative is in line with the Forest Sector Development and Strategic Plan of the Forestry Commission. The Strategic Plan places emphasis on an efficient forest industry and value-added production among others. The overall objective is to create an enabling environment for an efficient forest industry, by ensuring sufficient supply of legally harvested timber in the domestic market and discouraging illegal timber trade. Once the recommendations are completed, these will be submitted to the Ministry of Lands and Forestry for consideration.