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Mohit Gera , N. S. Blsht , A. K. Rana

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Medicinal plants, by complementing timber based management, offer a basis for managing forests in a sustainable manner. One of the important steps in realizing this prospect is to ensure better economic returns to collectors and cultivators of medicinal plants. Availability and access to market information is key to improving returns to producers of medicinal plants. The information is needed on demand, supply, end uses, distribution channels, product promotion, prices, marketing environment and institutions related to marketing. Even simple interventions such as better methods of collection, storage, grading and local level value addition can substantially improve returns to local communities. The paper discuss about to importance of market information, marketing capabilities, establishment of community based market information system (MIS), collection of market information, institutional and infrastructural support dissemination of market information and level of MIS.

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A. K. Rana , Sadhna Tripathi , Indra Dev

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The green house effect is a widely known phenomenon based on established scientific principles. Human activities like burning of forest fuel , destruction of forests add CO₂ to the atmosphere , which enhance the global temperature. This problem requires creative solutions to maintain the balance of ecosystem and check the unnatural climate change. Afforstration and forest fuels replacements are some of the measures to control it. Besides the above , there are natural forces which decay the wood products and add CO₂ to the atmosphere. This paper deals with the different aspects of carbon increase , and measures to control it. Carbon storage in wood products may be one of the potential way , which can be achieved by prolonging the life of wood and wood products through adopting wood preservation.

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