List of institutions with relevant data

Table 3. List of institutions with relevant data

Information owners	Variables of interest	Purposes
State government department
Revenue Department Commission to Land Records DRDA, PWD, Water Resource Dept., etc.	extent, number, volume	land-use planning
Forest-based industries
NTFPs including medicinal plants	species, annual production	raw material supply
Wood-based industries- (sawmills, ply wood, paper, etc.)	volume- species, size	raw material supply
Local institutions
FPCs/	extent, volume, species at micro (village) level	livelihood, micro-planning
VFCs/Panchayats/NGOs	extent, volume,
Panchayats	species	energy planning, avenue plantations, etc.
Farmers	species, number, volume, market value	economic benefit, farm portfolio
Academic institutions, forestry/ecological institutes
IIFM	extent, species, stand, volume, economic and social contributions	policy analysis, teaching, training, research, consultancy, extension, natural resource accounting (national level)
FSI	area, cover, volume by age/species	primary data generation, Inventory
TERI	biomass	energy planning, carbon sequestration
CSO	land use, resource valuation	national social accounting
NRSA	land use, cover	surveillance, monitoring, quantification, net primary productivity (NPP)
ICFRE	growth, volume, utilization, and marketing (national level)	research, development of ecological/economic models, extension
Agricultural universities	species, growth, volume	agro-forestry, farm forestry and its variants, models, research, extension
Other academic institutions (MoM)	species, growth volume, extent	academic purposes