In a major crackdown, officials from the Ponda Forest Department detained four individuals on charges of smuggling Khair wood near Malshe Curti. The team seized ...

L ittle over a year after the forest department authorities had seized Khair wood (Catechu trees) on the Mumbai Ahmedabad ...

Over 200 chips have already been embedded in fully grown khair trees. Khair trees are more vulnerable as the high-in-demand ‘kattha’ and ‘cutch’ are extracted from their wood. These are ...