Logs exports continue to rise and for the first half of this year, exports were 12% over the same period last year.
Up to the end of June, 60,955 cubic metres of logs were exported which accounted for earnings of US$11.8 million, according to data supplied by the Forest Products Development & Marketing Council of Guyana Inc. Last year, for the same period, log exports amounted to 54,376 cubic metres earning US$8.7 million. Half of all forest products exported up to June this year was logs.
China and India continue to be the main market for logs with 99.7 percent of