H. Rajagopal Shetty

Abstract

Babul plantations occupy by far the largest area among the tree crops raised artificially in Tamil Nadu. More areas are brought under this crop annually under Social Forestry all over in the South. Use of Babul wood as fuel, timber and in agriculture is well known. It can also be used for pulp in paper and rayon industries and the bark, for tanning. A crop volume and out-turn table is essential for the proper management of this growing asset. Out-turn table for fuelwood, pulpwood, bark, faggot-wood and brushwood is furnished separately, against independent variables of basal area and height.

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H. Rajagopal Shetty

Abstract

India holds near monopoly in the world trade of sandalwood and its oil fetchs Rs. ten crores foreign exchange. It is one of the most studied species in Indian Forestry, and was held as indigenous to peninsular India. Yet in recent years doubts have been expressed about its origin. The record of growing stock available over the last sixty years for the sandal foreets of the Javadi Hills in Vellore Forest Division of Tamil Nadu throws some fresh light to show, that sandal is a new immigrant in the eco-system. Dutch East Indies of Indian archepilago was probably its home, though it has naturalised in India perbaps for centuries.

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