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Private forest, the minimum area required for the purpose of growing firewood trees for fuel in the factories and smoke-houses as well as for supply to the employees of the estates for their domestic use is excluded from the definition of the term 'private forest', Pioneer Rubber Plantations v. State of Kerala, (1992) 4 SCC 175: AIR 1993 SC 192 (195). [Kerala Private Forests (Vesting and Assignment) Act, 1971, s. 2(f)(1)(i) (B)]