Quick answerThe endgame, stated plainly. Harvest of cultivated red sandalwood follows the Forest Department permission process in force at that time — documented plantations exist precisely to make that process clean. Felled timber is graded (heartwood content, dimension, quality) because value is grade-driven, not flat-rate. Sale then proceeds through the legal channels available then, with CITES compliance for any export. Where your agreement includes buyback assistance, we support or undertake the purchase per its written terms — read them, they are contractual. What cannot be promised today: the exact rules, prices, or timing a decade out. Anyone who promises those is selling certainty that does not exist.
Important: Harvest timing, applicable rules, realised prices and buyback outcomes cannot be guaranteed today for a harvest years away. All figures anywhere on this site are illustrative projections. Read your agreement’s buyback clauses carefully and take independent advice.
Step 1 — permission
Harvest applications proceed under the framework current at maturity. Our registration, survey and plantation records exist to make that application straightforward — the compliance thread runs from legal status through every project file.
Step 2 — grading
Value concentrates in heartwood, dimension and quality (what drives price). Grading determines what your trees are actually worth — a mature, well-grown plantation is the goal of the entire managed decade.
Step 3 — sale
Through the legal channels available at that time; exports require CITES/DGFT compliance.
Buyback — read the contract
Buyback assistance, where included, is defined by your written agreement: scope, pricing basis, conditions. We will walk you through those clauses before you sign — and we recommend independent legal review of them.
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