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​FOREST UTILISATION: Is that branch of forest which deals with harvesting, logging

&conservation disposal of forest products and other resources. Forest utilisation can also be termed

as economic botany. Plants and other forest produce include various practical methods that can be

adopted for the improvement in order to provide the daily needs of the rural population and for the

well-being of mankind. Economics uses of plants are also varied and the scope for improvement is

vast to meet man's ever increasing needs. The primary. needs of mankind are of course, food,

clothing and sheltering. It is therefore forests produced which are supply by pature are subsequently

improved upon man through judicious application of his scientific knowledge. The gifts of nature are

almost unlimited and the varieties of useful product are obtained from the plant kingdom. Therefore,

it is the prime duty of the forester to manage the forest with meticulous application of modern tools

and technologies.

Method of improvement: the method of common employed for improvement of crops with

regard to obtain their high quality, high yielding varieties etc. are:

1. Few lines of selection

2. Plant breeding technique.

3. Improving the method of cultivation.

4.

Selection and used of quality seeds

5. Proper used of adequate amount of chemical fertilizer and manners.

6. Judicicus selecticn of suitable crop for particular locality.

7. Introduction of High Yielding Varieties (HY V) and Fligh Resistance Varieties to diseases,

pest and insects.

8. Practicing of intensive and extensive farming cultivation.

9. Protective measures against diseases, pesticides and othet destructions

10. Proper Irrigation.

Economic plants are plenty and having varieties of uses. Many of them occur in a natural

state particularly in the forest, while a good member of them are cultivated for food and industrial

purposes.

Forest produce can be classified as:

1. Major forest produce, e.g. timber used as railways sleepers, house building construction,

construction of wooden bridges, furniture, planks, plywoods, pulpwood, electrical post,

firewood etc.

2. Major forest produce i.e. all forest product other than major forest produced including

grasses, fruits, foods, fibres, fuels, fodders, leaves, medicinal values, animal products, soil &

minerals, etc.

The fourth World Forestry Congress has recommended that it should be called economic forest

produced other then wood. But recently it has been rebelled as non-wood forest produced non-timber

forest produced, Thus, forest utilisation can be further divided irto three brenches:

1. Major forest produced and wed based industries.

2. Minor forest produced or non-wood forest produced.

3. importent non-riood forest produers industies.