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Trees constitute an important natural resource. From times immemorial trees have been past and parcel of human life. Man has learnt using products from tree in different forms. Tree gives us shelter, food, clothes and medicines. It is logical and convenient to treat the trees of all the states together, because many species have widely distributed. Very little and scattered information are available on Indian trees. Different species of trees, from the giants of ...
Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) can be defined as all goods derived from forest and their biomass for commercial and industrial use, which can be substainably extracted from a forest ecosystem in quantities and in such ways, that it does not downgrade the plant communities, basic reproductive function. For most recorded history, people have valued forests not only for wood, but for other products also. Modern science and government overlooked the importance of ...