The Tamil Nadu Forest Department is to supply firewood from exotic, invasive species removed from the forests of the Nilgiris district, to government tea factories, facilitating both the removal of invasive species from the district and helping to supply firewood at cheap rates to the struggling factories.
A government order, which was passed earlier this year, clears the Forest Department to supply around 15,000 metric tonnes of wood to the State-run Tamil Nadu Tea Plantation Corporation (TANTEA) at a price fixed by the government.
