In the bangla plantation forestry is limited, to the upland,
forests while in others, such as the tidal and fresh water swamp areas^ the
main system of working iri the selection system followed By natural
regeneration* Since the inception of development plans more stress is
“being laid on afforestation of waste land and “by far much greater area is
“being planted in the waste land than in reserve forests. The afforestation
areas include both upland and coastal areas. Coastal afforestation
combines the problems of both upland and tidal afforestation. The scope
of this paper has been limited to areas where plantation forestry is
practised not because similar problems do not exist in other areas but
because the poor nature of plantations is more preccptable and hurting
in the case of creating plantations by artificial methods. The annual
plantation areas covering both reforestation and afforestation has been
constantly increasing since independence. The following statement gives
a brief review of the plantation areas in Chittagong, Chittagong Hill
Tracts and Sylhet districts during the successive plan periods.