in addition to encouraging new plantations and the management of natural forests these two programmes stimulate treegrowing in the framework of agroforestry systems the records maintained by inab and conap show that nearly half of the timber cut annually with authorization from these institutions is destined for industry while the other half is used as fuel in addition to this illicitly harvested timber illegal felling is estimated to represent of the total volume harvested per year examples include xate leaves chicle gum allspice and maya nut nuez de ramori in the departments of guatemala chimaltenango quetzaltenango alta and baja verapaz and el progreso especially in the el rancho zone its activities consist essentially of conifer processing