Practical Manual on Plantation Forestry

Language: English

Published by Scientific, 2006

817233429X / 9788172334291

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Contents Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Equipments and tools used in plantation forestry. 3. Plantation technology. 4. Tending operations. 5. Plantation planning steps. 6. Impact of plantation forestry. 7. Energy and plantation forestry. 8. Plantation protection and economics. Literature cited. Annexure 1 3. Plantation forestry is an age old practice as people use to plant trees on their farm lands and near their houses. There were tree festivals like Shalbhangika Vanmahotsava in Gupta period. However the expanse of these plantations were less. With the advent of industrialization expanding population base and degradation of forest there is an urgent need to establish large scale plantations which on one hand fulfill the need of industries fuel fodder and timber requirement of people and on the other provide economic and environmental safety. In India generally degraded lands are spared for forest related activities. These degraded lands suffers from different problems like less soil depth grazing pressure poor nutrient may be saline alkaline inaccessibility undulating rocky so on. Establishing trees on these lands is a challenging task and requires skill and planning. In light of failure of many plantation programs in past it is imperative that the manpower is trained for plantation programs to achieve good results in field. This prompted the authors to bring out this manuscript which can help as a guide to foresters researchers and students. The book would be of interest to those who are concerned with land use in forest and soil conservation agriculture and forest colleges and universities. There are total eight chapters chapter first introduces plantation forestry as a science and spells the need and origin of large scale plantation. Second and third chapters are devoted to equipments and techniques used in plantation forestry. Rest of the chapters deals with management planning impact energy relation of plantation and protection of plantation forestry. 100 pp.…

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Title
Practical Manual on Plantation Forestry
Author
Pankaj Panwar and S D Bhardwaj
Publisher
Scientific
Publication year
2006
Condition
As New
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
817233429X
ISBN 13
9788172334291

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