A Practical Manual on Forestry

This Practical manual is designed for graduate and post graduate students ofagriculture stream. It is useful to research scholars and other professionals inthe field of agriculture via practical knowledge.This manual contains twelve chapters related to forestry subject. Thechapters included are Practical Identification of tree-species, Diametermeasurements using calipers, Height measurement of standing trees byshadow method, single pole method, Height measurement of standing treesby Instrumental method, of logs using variousformulae, Nursery lay out and seed sowing, Sowing methods of small,medium and large size seeds in nursery, Vegetative propagation techniques,Forest plantations and their management & Visits to nearby Forest basedindustriesAn attempt has been made to provide such prospective to the students ofgraduate and post graduate on the topics relevant to the syllabus prescribedaccording to ICAR for fifth Dean’s committee recommendations.