Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. The scenario of forest laws and rules governing tree growing in public and private lands/S. John Joseph. 2. Obstacles for forest development in India/N.S. Adkoli. 3. Policy legal issues regard to tree farming on private/community lands in India/A.K. Sharda and M.V. Ramakrishna. 4. A national policy for agroforestry?/R. Jambulingam. 5. People and forest trees: extension interventions for bridging the gap/S. Gopakumar, A.V. Santhoshkumar and K. Gopikumar. 6. Bamboos, forests and laws/K. Sukumaran. 7. Potentials of bamboo in agroforestry in India/J.S. Rawat, T.P. Singh and R.B.S. Rawat. 8. Bamboo sector development in the north-east: challenges and opportunities/Krishna Govind Prasad. 9. Status of bamboo resources and its utilization in Tripura/S.K. Pandey. 11. Bamboo and its uses in homestead: a case study in the Titabar Block of Jorhat district of Assam/Anup Chandra, Vijay Rawat, Rashmi Rekha Kalita, R. Borah and H. Mishra. 12. An insight into the utilization pattern of bamboo and canes in handicraft industries of Assam and Manipur/S. Pattanaik, T.C. Bhuyan, K.C. Pathak,. K.K. Sharma, C. Deka, B. Meitram, R.C. Singh and H. Kaur. 13. Status of bamboo, Rattan and medicinal plant cultivation in Assam/S.K. Sen. 14. Studies on management of natural bamboo (Dendrocalamus strictus) in foot-hills of Himalayas of Haryana State/R. Ramesh Singh. 15. Sustainable harvesting and marketing of bamboo species in Uttaranchal/Sharmila Ribeiro and Jack Croucher. 16. Problems of bamboo growers in Madhya Pradesh/P.K. Chowdhary. 17. Bamboo productivity and marketing in Cauvery Delta Region, Tamil Nadu/R. Jambulingam. 18. Economics of bamboo grown on private and community lands/M.S. Haque and S. Kannapiran. 19. Some policy changes for promoting rattan industry in Kerala/P.K. Muraleedharan, K.K. Seethalakshmi, V.P. Raveendran and K. Sreelakshmi. 20. Bamboo cultivation and traditional bamboo sector in Kerala/Madhu Narayan Baby. 21. Bamboo cultivation near forest areas: problems and apprehensions/K.C. Koshy. 22. Legal and other constraints in growing, harvesting and selling of bamboo and timber/Tony Thomas Kizhakkekara. 23. Trees growing on community/private lands in Jammu and Kashmir: policy and legal issues in their cultivation and utilization/P. Patnaik. 24. Issues in the development and utilization of natural resources in Uttaranchal/P. Todaria and D.S. Chauhan. 25. Policies and legal issues for agroforestry practices in Chhattisgarh/Sunil Puri. 26. Private forest legislation in India and Madhya Pradesh Lok Vaniki Act, 2001/Pankaj Srivastava. 27. Policy and legal issues in cultivation and utilization of bamboos and forest trees in private and community lands in Maharashtra/S.K. Bali and Subramanian. 28. Cultivation and utilization of forest trees in private and community lands in the state of Goa/Rajiv Kumar. 29. Forest laws-need to have a progressive legislation/A.C. Lakshmana and R.M. Palanna. 30. Problems in cultivation and utilization of forest trees and medicinal plants in Tamil Nadu/Siddappa, S. Viswanath, C.H. Muralidhara Rao and S. Saravanan. 31. Legal and procedural constraints in growing, cutting (harvesting), transporting and selling of timber/A.N. Singh. 32. Impact of legal amendments made in Tamil Nadu in promoting tree cultivation in farmlands/K.S. Neelakantan. 33. Managerial and legal issues of teak plantations in the farmlands of South India/Julien Demenois, Anne Heurtaux and Denis Depommier. 34. Legal, procedural and other constraints in growing, harvesting transporting and marketing of the products in Kerala/A.K. Goyal. 35. Forest policies and issues outside forests: Kerala context/M. Govindan Kutty. 36. Production of industrial forest produce in private lands: policy and legal issues/T.K. Raghavan Nair. 37. Woody perennials in the farmlands of Kerala: policy and legal issues/B. Mohan Kumar and K.V. Peter. 38. Issues impeding growing and use of trees and other forest species in Kerala: a stakeholder analysis/U.M. Chandrashekara, K.A. Abdul Salam and S. Sankar. 39. Who killed the goose that laid golden eggs? Policies that led to the decline of home gardens of Kerala/K.P. Ouseph. 40. Cultivation and harvest of forest trees on private lands in Kerala: current problems and strategies for future/M.M. Animon, E.V. Anoop and T.K. Kunhamu. 41. Agricultural income tax and its applicability to forest trees and produce/K.R. Sudhakaran Pillai. 42. Plantation insurance/M.A. Aziz. 43. Acts, rules and regulations on growing, cutting and transportation of bamboo, rattan and other forestry species in private and community lands in different states/K. Sankara Pillai. 44. Forest laws in India: a check list/C. Mohanan. 45. Report on the workshop/K.C. Chacko. 46. List of participants. Author index.
