Sneak Peek to Forestry

Contents: Unit-I: Forest and Forestry: 1. Forest 2. Role of Forest 3. Classification of Forest Based on Mode of Regeneration, Age, Composition, Ownership, Objects of Management and Growing Stock 4. National Forest Policy 1988 - Objectives and Salient Features.

Unit-II: Silviculture and Forest Plantation: 5. Forest Regeneration - Types of Regeneration - Natural Regeneration through Seeds and Vegetative Parts Including Coppice and Root Suckers 6. Artificial Regeneration, Objectives - Nurseries - Types of Nurseries, Quality Seedling Production Techniques 7. Silvicultural Characters, Regeneration Techniques, Tending, Rotation, Yield and uses of Teak, Sandal Wood and Red Sanders 8. Silvicultural Character, Regeneration techniques, Tending, Rotation, Yield and uses of Casurina species, Eucalyptus species and Ailanthus execlsa 9. Silvicultural Character, Regeneration Techniques, Tending, Rotation, Yield and uses of Azadiracta indica, Melia dubia, Dalbergia sissoo and Gmelina arborea

Unit-III: Forest Mensuration: 10. Definition, Objectives, Scope of Forest Mensuration – Diameter, Girth and Height Measurement Methods

Unit-IV: Social Forestry and Agroforestry 11. Social Forestry: 12. Agroforestry 13. Tree - Crop Interaction 14. National Agroforestry Policy - 2014

Unit-V: Forest Utilization: 15. Forest Utilization - Definition - Wood Products - Solid wood and Composite Wood 16. Forest Utilization - Non-Wood Forest Products - Fibres, Floss, Bamboo, Tan, Dye, Resin, Oleoresin

Model Question - 1 Model Question – 2 Model Question – 3 Model Question – 4 Model Question - 5 Model Question - 6 Model Question - 7