Consumption and Production Pattern of Sawmills in Ratnagiri District of Maharashtra State

Sawmill is one of the principal forest industries that is engaged in the processing and the efficient utilization of the timbers, a producer of semi-finished intermediate goods for other sectors. The study was aimed at consumption and production pattern of sawmills in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra state. Data were collected from thirty six (36) sawmill firms from the study area primarily through questionnaire using the random sampling technique. The results revealed that the overall lumber recovery in the selected sawmills was estimated at 73.96 per cent of the total lumber input. The average recovery of sawmills was between 63.55 to 83.95 per cent. In the sawmills of 6 species which had larger consumption, Gmelina arborea (80.73%) reported the highest recovery followed by Tectona grandis (79.34%), Terminalia tomentosa (78.12%), Acacia arabica (74.37%) and Mangifera indica (73.66%) and lowest was in Artocarpus interifolius (71.20%).