The West Coast Paper Mills Ltd., although dependent heavily on trees for supply of raw materials, remains one of the foremost ecology conscious concern in the country. With the threats of ozone depletion and global warming, the company has taken a number of steps to protect ecology as well as to ensure steady supply of raw material.

The natural forests in India being under tremendous pressure, the Company has started a programme of distributing quality seedlings of fast growing species like Eucalyptus, Casurina, Acacia and Subabul (which are the raw materials of the plant).

The beneficiaries are owners of low yielding local agricultural lands in the vicinity of the plant, i.e Uttar Kannada, part of Shimoga, Belgaum and Dharwar districts. The target is to distribute to the tune of 4 million quality seedlings.

The Company has implemented Clonal Technology to achieve the following:

• Supply genetically high quality planting stock.
• Improve land productivity and yields from pulpwood plantation
• Provide fuelwood etc. for local use
• Improve the economic conditions of the growers through
  clonal plantation
• Encourage overall tree forming practices.

The company has been playing a very active role in developing the backward district of Uttara Kannada. Stabilising fly-ash dumps by biological means, developing better drainage systems, organising education from primary to graduate, including pulp and paper technology course, facilities for needy children, organising various social awareness programmes etc. are some of the steps it has taken to manifest its commitments to social and environmental causes.

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