Policy and Legal Issues in Cultivation and Utilization of Bamboo, Rattan and Forest Trees in Private and Community Lands/edited by C. Mohanan, K.C. Chacko, K.K. Seethalakshmi, S. Sankar, C. Renuka, E.M. Muralidharan and J.K. Sharma.Policy and Legal Issues in Cultivation and Utilization of Bamboo, Rattan and Forest Trees in Private and Community Lands/edited by C. Mohanan, K.C. Chacko, K.K. Seethalakshmi, S. Sankar, C. Renuka, E.M. Muralidharan and J.K. Sharma. Peechi, Kerala Forest Research Institute, 2002, x, 221 p., tables, ISBN 81-85041-33-4.

    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.

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