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Plantation forestry research in India: A mini review

N. P. Melkania and Kusum Arunachalam

Indian Journal of Forestry | Volume: 25 | Issue: 4 | Page No. 377-386 | 2002
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps1000-2002-H184L2 | Cite this article

Abstract

Forestry in India presents the history of deforestation and degradation, and on the other the humanized forestation - the plantation forestry. Heavy felling of natural forests during the world wars, especially the second one, replaced natural regeneration-based colonical forestry to human-controlled plantations in the neo-colonical (post-independence) age in a gradient of social, socio-economic and ecological - socioeconomic perspectives in the first, third and eighth Five Year Plans, respectively. This synthesis presents progress in selected aspects of plantation forestry research in India, especially during the last decade and attempts to identify the opportunities for future research to achieve sustainable human-controlled forestry for multiple resource management.

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Melkania, N.P. and Arunachalam, K., 2002. Plantation forestry research in India: A mini review. Indian Journal of Forestry, 25(4), pp.377-386. https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps1000-2002-H184L2

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