Aromatic plants yielding essential oils have multifarious uses from time immemorial like aroma therapy, pharmaceutical preparations, cosmetic and perfumery. Their sustainable exploitation is essential to meet the challenges of the 21 century for economic development of the society, Biodiversity and environmental conservation. This comprehensive book furnishes information on all aspects of about 69 commercially important plants, necessary for forest managers, ...
Management of forests sustainably is a global challenge. With the gradual rise in population, forest cover and natural resources have been depleting. Over exploitation of timber alarmed the forest managers and policy makers and compelled them to ban or restrict timber harvesting. To make up the revenue loss from timber, Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP) have been globally considered as an alternative source of earnings from the forests. But due to over ...
An actually demanding book is intended to offer guidance and help to all those entrepreneurs who wish to start some chemical industry based on forest plants and are generally confused regarding selection of plants, their availability and their scope of development for obtaining good economic returns from industry and trade. Based on this idea, hundred plant species on which industry can be established, have been short listed and relevant information which may be ...