Indian with just 2.5. per cent of the land area of the planet, has to support 15 per cent of the world's human population and equally large population of livestokc. The forest of the coutry are under intense biotic pressure leading to degradation of forest resources. The supply of industrial and domestic wood from forest areas has been dwinding. The average annual increment of forests in India is very low (0.7m/ha/year compared to the world average of 2.1.m/ha/year) to meet the much needed demands of fuel wood, tiber, and aw material for industries in large quantities. We must therefore have to pay more attention to production forestry, which involves raising plantations of fast growing species under short rotation intensive culture management.

Contents :
Preface
Contributors
Author Index
Exotics in Indian Forestry
The Use of Exotics and Indigenous Tree Species in Agroforestry and Plantation Forestry
Status and Future of Exotics in Western HImalays
Forests and Farming in Himachal Pradesh-'Exotics' Require Reorienting plantation Strategies
Introduction of Exotics in South India- A Boon to Paper Industry
Role of Exotics in Industiral Farm Forestry Plantations-An ITC Experience
Present Status of Exotic Acacia Species in India
The Introduction of Natural Rubber (Heveai Brasiliensis ) in India : A Success Story
Exotics for Afforestation and Reforestation under clean development mechnaism (CDM) of Kyoto protocol: opportunites for farmers
Eucalyptus for the Reclamation fo Shallow Water Table Areas-A case study
Nutrient contents and their prelease pattern from the leaves of an exotic species of acacia (Acacia Mangium)
Nabard's Initiativies in Funding Clonal Eucalypts Under Short Rotation Forestry
Acacia Auriculiformis-A Promising Exotic species for degraded lands in India
Nutrient dynamics in eucalyptus tereticornis plantation doon valley
Simarouba Glauca-potential exotic for greening of wasteland of tamil nady
MS access based interactive database management systems for temperate exotic trees
Predicting prosopis juliflora spread within India using ecological niche modeling- a case study
Pinus Halepensis Mill: An Exotic pine for fuel wood production and greening of waste lands in kashmir
Scope of ajtropha cultivation on wastelands in India
Cultivation of aloe (Aloe vera) as Intercrop with Amla (Embelica officinalis l.0
The Contributiona ndc ritics of exotic species in the plantation forestry of Bangladesh
Studies on teh performanc eof poplar (populus deltoides) in Gangetic Plains of Eastern Bihar
Production Potential in short roptation eucalyptus Tereticorinis Sm lantations in subhumid Tropical environment of India Managing salaty soils and groundwters for establishing plantations of exotic trees Acutal productivity and potential productivity of the souls of the Humid Sub-mountainous tract for growing crops, pastures and trees
Growth analysis of high density plnatatiosn of black wattle (acacia Mollissima de willd)in
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