Salem District to become Sandalwood capital: Analyzing other districts than Chennai

Salem District Profile

Two existing depots of Sandal wood in the country are Sathyamangalam and Tirupattur. Since two existing depots of Sandal wood in the country is going out of stock, Salem is being demanded more sandal wood.

Salem depot has 560 tonnes of sandal logs worth about Rs 224 crores. This seems to be on the way to have Salem as the sandal wood production and distributor of the country, in a major way. Sandal wood is in high demand and it is very expensive. it is needed all across the world.

Security is the only issue, in terms of growing Sandal wood production in the forest. There needs to be improvement in controlling Smuggling.

Analyzing districts of tamil nadu, other than chennai.