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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, ...
The world has rich forests varying from rain forests to dry thorn scrub and alpine pastures. Human beings depend heavily on forest products in their everyday lives these products include timber and non timber forest products like medicines, drugs, food, fodder, fuel, dyes, tans, essential oils, fibers, flosses, coir, silk, lac, gums, resins and many other products. Forest products are also raw materials for the industrial production of many useful materials like ...
This book has in it the best of information for all those who seek to whet their appetites on Andaman Islands and Islanders. John Keats the famous English poet said", A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. Its loveliness increases and it never passes into nothingness", I hope the Andaman scenic beauty as well the book hold good of his statement. The book "Forests of Andamans" is the result of very hard and sincere labour. The author has put, in ...
Forest is a complex system not only on ecological dimensions. And, there are different imperatives in their management from different levels of social organization. Forest sector planning is, therefore, a complex task. The book is an attempt to present some tools for the development planning of the sector under new imperatives. The concept of the book was generated during the author’s consultant assignment from FAO, Rome.