{"id":215371,"date":"2022-11-22T19:25:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T13:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=215371"},"modified":"2022-11-22T19:25:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T13:55:42","slug":"dalbergia-sissoo-india-gets-cites-rules-eased-for-export-of-shisham-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dalbergia-sissoo-india-gets-cites-rules-eased-for-export-of-shisham-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalbergia sissoo: India gets CITES rules eased for export of Shisham items"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the following articles:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0\u201c<\/b><b>India gets CITES rules eased for export of Shisham items<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>TOI on 22nd November 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Cites Cop-19: Huge Relief to Handicraft Exporters of India<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB on 21st November 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has got rules for the export of Shisham or North India Rosewood (Dalbergia Sissoo) eased under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora (CITES).<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Dalbergia sissoo?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dalbergia sissoo is commonly known as North Indian Rosewood or Shisham. It is a fast-growing, hardy, deciduous rosewood tree native to the Indian subcontinent and southern Iran.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is native to the foothills of the Himalayas. It is primarily found growing along river banks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Uses:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is used as firewood, timber, poles, posts, tool handles, fodder, erosion control and as a windbreak. Oil is extracted from the seed and tannin from the bark.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the CITES status of Dalbergia sissoo?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shisham (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dalbergia sissoo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) is included in Appendix II of the convention, thereby requiring countries to follow CITES regulations for the trade of the species.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As of now every consignment of weight above 10 kg requires a CITES permit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Impact of Restriction on India:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In India, the species Dalbergia sissoo is found in abundance and is not treated as an endangered species.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But due to the restriction, exports of furniture and handicrafts made of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dalbergia sissoo <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from India have been continuously falling from an estimated 1000 crore Indian Rupees per annum before the listing to 500-600 crore Indian Rupees (~64 to 77 million USD) per annum after the listing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The decrease in exports of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dalbergia sissoo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> products has affected the livelihoods of around 50,000 artisans who work with the species.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What happened at the 19th meeting of CITES?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India and other countries had asked for delisting <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dalbergia sissoo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from CITES Appendix II. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, CITES did not agree to de-list the species from Appendix II. But it gave relief in terms of the weight of each item.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will solve the problem of Indian artisan communities to a great extent and will give a tremendous boost to exports of articles produced by them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the following articles: \u00a0\u201cIndia gets CITES rules eased for export of Shisham items\u201d published in TOI on 22nd November 2022. \u201cCites Cop-19: Huge Relief to Handicraft Exporters of India\u201d published in PIB on 21st November 2022. What is the News? India has got rules for the export of Shisham&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dalbergia-sissoo-india-gets-cites-rules-eased-for-export-of-shisham-items\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dalbergia sissoo: India gets CITES rules eased for export of Shisham items<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[3590,10496],"class_list":["post-215371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-pib","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}