Every item has shown notable progress with the exception of wood and charcoal for charcoal gas, where a decline of consumption is the normal corollary of the return to use of gasoline for motor vehicles. It is nearly 100 percent higher in 1946 with 100,000 metric tons of wood, as against 56,000 in 1945. Further progress, however, will have to surmount serious difficulties. Forty-three percent are coppice, 26.5 percent are coppice with standards, and 30 percent are high forests. Most of the output was consumed locally before the war, but exports to Singapore and the east coast are now contemplated.
Shipping is the principal difficulty because of poor harbors.
The 500 km. of forest roads existing in 1925 have now been brought up to 3,000 km. A forestry school at Ifrane will give forest rangers their initial schooling. There have been 80,000 hectares earmarked for replanting. Plans call for adding 2 million hectares to the existing forest area in the course of the next 20 years. These plans are to be aided by a campaign for the reconstruction of sawmills destroyed during the war and for the fuelwood allotments and the best possible utilization of waste production.