Forests for Socio-economic and Rural Development in India

Forests for Socio-economic and Rural Development in India

Author: Sharad Singh Negi

Publisher: M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9788185880990

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Forests and Forestry has the potential of playing a major role in socioeconomic and rural development in India. This book examines this role in various perspectives. It deals with forests, forestry and people; poverty alleviation; forest policies; forestry in five year plans; socioeconomic and rural development; forest products; food, fodder and fuel from forests; forest-based industries; social and community forestry; tribal welfare, development and administration; economics of forest land use and labour in forestry.


Rattan Glossary

Rattan Glossary

Author: Dennis Victor Johnson

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9789251050958

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This volume contains a glossary on terms and terminologies used in the rattan sector. The glossary is structured according to the following major sections: rattan resources (biology, management, plantations, harvesting); rattan as a raw material (transport, storage, grading and post-harvest handling, rattan trade); rattan processing (for local artisanal uses; for industrial level furniture manufacturing); and rattan trade in raw, furniture and other products. In order to give special emphasis to the emerging rattan sector in Africa, a separate compilation of terms specifically focusing on those used in Africa is added.


Palms of Southern Asia

Palms of Southern Asia

Author: Andrew Henderson

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2009-04-27

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1400832993

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Southern Asia is a vast and ecologically diverse region that extends from the deserts of Afghanistan to the rainforests of Thailand, and is home to a marvelously rich palm flora. Palms of Southern Asia is the only complete field guide to the 43 genera and 352 species of palms and rattans that occur in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. This attractive guide's handsome illustrations and succinct, authoritative, and jargon-free text make identification easy. Each species account includes the correct scientific and common names, and fully describes morphology, habitat, and uses. Featuring a distribution map for most species and 256 full-color photographs, this is also the only field guide to cover the extremely diverse palm flora of Vietnam, and the first to offer a taxonomic overview of the rattan species of Southern Asia. Palms of Southern Asia is a book of major importance for botanists and an invaluable aid for naturalists and conservationists, and it's the perfect field guide for ecotourists traveling in the region. Covers all 352 naturally occurring palms in Southern Asia Features full-color photographs of 256 species, many never before illustrated Includes a distribution map for most species Provides the first taxonomic overview of the rattans of Southern Asia


A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India

A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India

Author: George Watt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-01-23

Total Pages: 697

ISBN-13: 110806874X

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Reissued in nine parts, this monumental work (1889-96) describes India's commercial plants and produce, providing scientific and vernacular names.