Short Rotation Forestry for Industrial and Rural Development

Contents 1. Plant physiological aspects of woody biomass production for energy purposes/Lars Christersson. 2. Agroforestry for improved livelihood security/J.S. Samra and K.R. Solanki. 3. Short rotation forestry an alternative silviculture/Lars Christersson and Kartar S. Verma. 4. Mini rotation Leucaena plantations for rural development and industry in India/P.S. Pathak and S.K. Gupta. 5. Current issues in agroforestry policy/Jagdish Kishwan. 6. Study on Loblolly pine (pinus taeda) as a short rotation forestry in the North of Iran (Caspian Sea Region)/Amir Bonyad. 7. NABARD's initiatives in promoting short rotation forest species under agroforestry a case study/M.S. Haque and S. Kannapiran. 8. Choice of Willow (Salix spp.) clones for establishment under short rotation forest plantations in Estonia/Katrin Heinsoo and Andres Koopel. 9. Bamboo a potential resource for short rotation forestry some experiences from NEH region of India/B.P. Bhatt and K.M. Bujarbaruah. 10. Utility of short rotation forestry in Poland chosen examples/Krzystof Boron. 11. Influence of irrigation on growth and biomass production of some short rotation high density energy plantation in North Western Himachal Himalaya (H.P.)/Gopichand. 12. Teak as a short rotation crop under agroforestry systems to fulfill rural needs experiences in Tamil Nadu/C. Buvaneswaran M. George and S. Saravanan. 13. Productivity potential of Eucalyptus tereticornis Smith plantation managed under Short Rotation High Density (SRHD) system/H.S. Saralch K.S. Verma S.D. Bhardwaj and S.K. Chauhan. 14. Meeting forage needs through agroforestry/K.R. Solanki. 15. Potential of soil carbon sink expansion in Himachal Pradesh and under different land uses in India/M.N. Jha and M.K. Gupta. 16. Temporal changes in the soil properties under high density energy plantation of Acacia mollisima and Eucalyptus hyhrid/K.S. Verma V.K. Mishra R. Kaushal and J.K. Sharma. 17. Current status and potential of agroforestry research in India/P. Rai and A.K. Handa. 18. Agroforestry interventions for biomass production and rejuvenation of degraded lands/K.S. Dadhwal. 19. Effect of hedging height on production of shoots and shoot cuttings in selected clones of Dalbergia sissoo Roxb./Sandeep Sharma Surinder Kumar and K.S. Thakur. 20. Clonal evaluation of Casuarina equisetifolia L. Johnson/Ashok Kumar M. Paramathma Maria Dominique Savio and Vivek Acharya. 21. Perspective of introduction of Populus deltoides clones in subhumid tropics of Central India/Sunil Puri and S.L. Swamy. 22. Economic analysis of Bamboo cultivation through flute methods in agroforestry system/A.N. Dey S.N. Patra and T.L. Mohanty. 23. Prospects of Bamboo shoot farming in Himachal Pradesh/D.R. Bhardwaj and V.K. Mishra. 24. Evaluation of different Eucalyptus species for high rainfall areas of Karnataka/K.M. Satishchandra and S.K. Malkhede. 25. Controlled pollination and hybrid production in E. Tereticornis Sm./B. Nagarajan N. Ravi Mohan Varghese A. Nicodemus and V. Sivakumar. 26. Variability and genetic estimates in Toona ciliata open pollinated families at the nursery stage/R.N. Sehgal Vidya Thakur and Punit Choudhary. 27. Estimating genetic divergence among different provenances of wild pomegranate (Punica granatum L.)/K.S. Pant and C.V. Saraswat. 28. Genetic divergence in chirpine (Pinus roxburghii sargent)/Ranjeet Kumar and K.C. Chauhan. 29. Provenance evaluation in Grewia optiva (Bhemal) for agroforestry systems/P.C. Tyagi and Harsh Mehta. 30. Genetic variability and correlation studies in Diallel progeny test of prosopis cineraria (L.) druce/Shyam Sunder M.S. Hooda and D. Chopra. 31. Clustering pattern for different provenances of Dendrocalamus strictus/P.K. Mahajan and Nishant Awasthi. 32. Effect of cutting size on survival and growth behaviour of poplar (Populus deltoides)/Sanjeev Thakur Kamal Sharma D.K. Khurana and Narender Thakur. 33. Effect of diameter on first rotation coppice shoots in populus deltoides and eucalyptus tereticornis a.…