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Jain, S. S.
- Safe Transportation of Field Planting Stocks of Sympodial Bamboos with Special Reference to Saplings
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Indian Forester, Vol 135, No 5 (2009), Pagination: 595-599Abstract
One of the activities of National Bamboo Mission (NBM-India) involves the production of bamboo planting stocks and raising plantations not only to overcome the shortage of bamboos in the country but also to promote the export of bamboo products. The plantation activities involve safe transportation of bamboo planting stocks from nurseries to planting sites. Their safe transportation from nursery to field planting site is as vital as production of field plantable bamboo saplings in the nurseries. It is absolutely essential that the saplings reach the destination in undamaged and uninjured condition. This is one of the most practical and applied aspect of the plantation technology. The bamboo seedlings/saplings need proper protection against high ambient temperature, gusty wind and mechanical vibrations due to speed of the truck (carrying field planting stocks) during transit. The trucks need to have double layered tarpaulin roofing to protect the planting stocks from heat of the sun; proper ventilation for the respiration by the planting stocks and also to prevent the accumulation of carbon di oxide besides protecting the saplings from the gusty wind. Proper care for the planting stock is also utmost requirement, to maintain sufficient moisture for the plants to maintain uptake of nutrients, during transit. The practice adopted at Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehra Dun under Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), Dehra Dun has been described.Keywords
Sympodial Bamboos, Field Planting Stock, Saplings, Safe Transportation- Research Needs and Priorities for Conservation of Indian Medicinal Flora
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Indian Forester, Vol 129, No 1 (2003), Pagination: 85-92Abstract
South-East Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe provide nearly 90 per cent of raw materials for medicinal exploitation. It is revealed that there are actually 121 plants tliat yielded prescription drugs as a result of the study on 35,000 species of plants. About 5,000 species world over are considered to have been examined throughly for the active principles. Only 41 species generate commercial sales to the tune of US$ 40 billion per year with nonformulation drugs as adjuncts claiming nearly US$ 60 billion. The Indian region endowed with nearly 20,000 species of plants highlight 75 major species of medicinal flora, out of which at least 25 were most sought after during the last decade. Nearly 3600 species of documented medicinal flora 540 find major use as herbal drugs (about 200 of these are used in bulk quantities and are of commercial potential). The families of plants such as Apocynaceae, Celastraceae, Compositae (Asteraceae), Simaroubaceae, Rutaceae, Thymelaeaceae, Magnoliaceae, Annonaceae, Boraginaceae, Leguminosae (Fabaceae), Liliaceae, Rubiaceae, Gymnosperms (Cephalotaxaceae) have anti-cancer drug yielding species. The paper provides botanical-cumphytogeographical regions of the country with specific elements of medicinal flora. The need for categorizing the rare and threatened medicinal and aromatic flora as per IUCN Red Data enlisting norms has been emphasized in the paper. Research need and priorities targeting different activities on the aspects of (i) Inventorization and Characterization, (ii) Monitoring and Assessment, (iii) Ex-situ Conservation, (iv) In-situ Conservation and (v) Utilization have been outlined in the paper.- A Report on the Recent Flowering of Giant Bamboo in the Campus of forest Research Institute , Debra Dun
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Indian Forester, Vol 128, No 5 (2002), Pagination: 583-586Abstract
No abstract- Elatostema longicadatum Grierson & long (Urticaceae) an addition to the Flora of India and Burma
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