Indian Forest Utilization

by Troup, R S

ISBN: 9789359193151
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Imprint : Agri Horti Press
Year : 2025
Price : Rs. 9095.00
Biblio : xvi+257p., tbles., figs., ind 25 cm

About The Book

Indian Forest Utilization serves people in many tangible ways. They are an inexhaustible reserve and provide man and industries with numerous raw materials and constitute a perennial economy. The present book is divided into four parts which is spread over in various chapters. Part-I Harvesting and conversion of wood focuses on the technical properties of wood, industrial uses of wood, felling and conversion of wood. Part-II Utilization of minor forest produce explains the grass, minor produce from the stems and roots of trees and other plants, utilization of leaves, utilization of flowers, fruits and seeds, exuded products, animal products, including hunting, fishing and elephants catching and mineral products, and miscellaneous minor forest produce. Part- III Organization of labour and modes of sale and disposal of wood and other forest produce delineates the organization offorest labour, methods of sale, systems of extraction and disposal of forest produce while Part -IV Forest industries describes the manufacture of charcoal, turpentine and colophony, cutch and kaths, extractions of various oils and tars, preparations of tannins and extracts and antiseptic treatment of wood. This book is useful to students of forestry, economic botany, natural resources, engineering, wood science, serving foresters, growers, forest managers, processing and marketing agencies, manufacturers, consultants, and policy makers for the forestry sectors.