The role and place of forested areas in the general land economy and economic development of a country
1. THE PRESENT OF FOREST PROTECTION AND FOREST MANAGEMENT TN THE WORLD
Progress made since the Third World Forestry Congress
2. PROTECTIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE FOREST
Determining the area to be reserved under vegetal cover/or soil and water protection
(a) Forest influences (including forest gazing lands)
(b) Watersheds or catchment basins of valley development projects
(c) Reclamation of degraded soils, including deserts
(d) Shelterbelts
(e) Education in conservation; principles of soil and water conservation
3. PROTECTIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE FOREST
Determining the area to be reserved tinder vegetal cover as a bash? for industrialization and other economic or social purposes, and managing this area under proper methods
(a) Management for timber production and other forest products on lands under various categories of ownership and particularly integration of forest operations with the operations of forest industries(b) Management of forest lands for grazing and their integration with other fodder resources
(c) Management of forest lands for wild life
(d) Management of forest lands for recreation
(e) Management of plantations outside the forest, in conjunction with agriculture or for special purposes (hedges, railway lands, roadside avenues, plantations of high productivity on agricultural lands, etc.)
4. FOREST PRODUCTS UTILIZATION
Determining the most efficient methods of utilizing the products of the forest
(a) Extraction and transport:(i) The status of forest workers
(ii) Mechanization of operations(b) Utilization of hitherto little used species, including new techniques of seasoning and preservation
(c) Development of key-industries:
(i) Dousing and new construction materials derived from wood
(ii) Pulp and paper(d) Industries based on forest produce other than wood:
(i) Resins
(ii) Tans
(iii) Essential oils
(iv) Drugs, dyes, others
5. TROPICAL FORESTRY
(a) Methods of increasing growth and obtaining natural regeneration:(i) Teak
(ii) Tropical ram forest
(iii) Mangrove
(iv) Bamboo
(v) Pine and other conifers
(vi) Other species(b) Techniques of artificial regeneration and formation of plantations:
(i) Seed problems(ii) Nursery practices
(iii) Methods of formation of plantations: irrigated non irrigated for special purposes (fuel, fodder, pulp, etc.)
(c) Desert control
(d) Shifting cultivation
(e) Inventories of tropical forests:
(i) Use of aerial photographs
(ii) Ground sampling
(iii) Growth determination and prediction(f) Methods of research in silviculture - application of statistical design and analysis techniques
