Forestry in Bangladesh

forests.^[1] By 1980 only about 16 percent of the land was forested, and forests had all but disappeared from the densely populated and intensively cultivated deltaic plain.^[1] Aid organizations in the mid-1980s began looking into the possibility of stimulating small-scale forestry to restore a resource for which there was no affordable substitute.^[1] Bangladesh Forest Research Institute (BFRI) is the government organization under Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change for research in this sector which was established in 1955 at Sholoshahar, Chittagong city.^[2]

paper industry, poles for electric power distribution, and leaves for thatching for dwellings.^[1] The total percentage of forests are 10.98%.^{[citation needed}