Trees to disappear in Chitral after 30 years' if alternate fuel not arranged: DFO.

PESHAWAR: Chitral was feared to lose its trees in next thirty years if they were being chopped down to utilized as fuel by the people of the area warned Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Shaukat Fayyaz Khattak on Tuesday.

He said Chitral currently needs 4,186,000 maunds wood annually, but production was too low than the requirement.

The DFO said when people do not find others wood then they even do not hesitate to use the precious Deodar wood for fuel.

He said 550,000 feet Deodar was produced in ten years as it grows very slowly. Shaukat Fayyaz said he has proposed in response to complaints on Citizen Portal about the fuel situation that alternative means of fuel should be provided to protect forests which include gas and electricity on cheaper rates.

He suggested that people must be provided free of cost, or at least subsidized, electricity from Golian power house so that they could use it for cooking food and keeping their houses warm.

The DFO said forests and stocks of Chestnut trees will be exhausted in the next three and four years. He said the growth of the plant was too slow, while its consumption was too high. He said people will switch to the use of Deodar after Chestnut trees will be no more...

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