With the rapid industrialisation and establishment of wood based industries in our country,awide gap between supply and demand is being created. If we depend on our slow growing hardwood species for bridging the gap, it will widen the gap only, instead of closing the same. Secondly our wood based industries require softwood specially long—fibre species,.which cannot be met from our existing wood stands. Along with the growing of indigenous light wood species, search has to be made also to find out some conifers of exotic origin which can be established in oii soil and climatic conditions to meet the growing demand of long fibre species.