"To be the foremost
agency in reafforestation and plantation forestry development."
Mission
Statement
"To develop highly productive
forest plantation for long term supply of wood resource and improving the
socio-economic status of the state and country on sustainable basis."
Objectives
To establish large scale commercial
plantations for the production of timber and other wood products;
To rehabilitate wastelands for productive
use;
To protect and restore the environment
through reafforestation activities;
To promote the active participation
of the private sector in forest plantation and/or down stream activities;
To carry out research and development
activities in relation to forest plantation techniques, downstream processing
and marketing;
To uplift the socio-economic status
of the local rural inhabitants;
To develop the expertise of SAFODA’s
employees in forest related industry through education and on the job training.
Function
To encourage, promote, stimulate,
improve, co-ordinate, regulate and control forest products and forest product
activities including the effective and efficient utilization of forest
products.
The improvement of the methods of
exploiting forest products; the planting, maintenance and harvesting of
forest plantations; grading and quality control; methods of operation,
business and marketing.
In relation to forest, forest products
and forest product activities :-
To gather, study, analyse and distribute
information
As needed to arrange and where possible, to provide technical advisory
services, marketing facilities and agencies, training programmes
To make recommendations to Government
on methods, measures and policies and implement or assist in the implementation
of any policies or methods approved by Government if so required.
To collect, receive or charge such
dues, cess or other charges as may be deemed reasonable by the Minister
to meet the costs of the Authority and the carrying out of its objectives
and functions
To carry out or supervise the development
of suitable areas from which timber has been extracted and other suitable
areas including planting or replanting.
To encourage, promote, supervise and
undertake afforestation and reafforestation to supplement the production
of timber from natural forests.
To carry out the development of forestry-based
settlement schemes through implementation of afforestation and reafforestation
to uplift the socio-economic standard of the rural population.
