{"title":"Status of Sterculia Urens Roxb. Trees in Madhya Pradesh, India","authors":"P. Bhatnagar, Radhika Urmalia","doi":"10.54207/bsmps2000-2014-o1h5pl","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2014-o1h5pl","url":null,"abstract":"Destructive and unsustainable harvesting practices led to a decline of Sterculia urens (Gum karaya) trees from some of the forest areas of Madhya Pradesh. Therefore to assess the current status of S.urens trees, seven districts of the state were surveyed. Results revealed that gum karaya collection is done by inflicting multiple blazes on Sterculia trees. The intensity of harvesting was found progressively high in Sheopur district, followed by Umaria and Damoh districts. Percentage of healthy trees is declining. Methods adopted by local gum collectors are unsustainable and of serious concern leading to tree damage or even mortality. Gum collection is usually carried out throughout the year by locals until gum oozing stops. Post harvesting practices are not properly followed leading to increased chances of contamination and poor economic returns.","PeriodicalId":259027,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115926497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Ramasamy, Poonam Shinde, Sandip Ghate, I. Sekar
{"title":"Economics of Nursery Nutrient Management for Bixa Orellana","authors":"P. Ramasamy, Poonam Shinde, Sandip Ghate, I. Sekar","doi":"10.54207/bsmps2000-2014-658glh","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2014-658glh","url":null,"abstract":"An investigation was undertaken with Bixa orellana the test tree species to standardize ideal Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) techniques for improving the growth of B. orellana seedlings, so as to obtain the best quality seedling within a shortest nursery period. A nursery experiment was conducted by raising seedlings in polybags filled with standard soil mixture 2:1:1 (Soil: Sand: FYM) with three levels of nitrogen (100, 200 and 300 mg N per seedling) as urea, three levels of phosphorus (200, 300 and 400 mg P2O5 per seedling) as single super phosphate and three levels of potassium (100, 200 and 300 mg of K2O per seedling) as muriate of potash along with Farm Yard Manure (100g) per seedling, Azospirillum (5g) per seedling, Phosphobacteria (5g) per seedling and Vermicompost (5g) per seedling.The cost analysis revealed a positive trend in reducing the nursery period. The observation of this study showed that the production of 1000 seedlings in control incurred a total cost of Rs.800.00 and the seedlings took 120 days to reach a height of 24.10 cm, collar diameter of 0.65 cm and shoot-root ratio of 0.97 but the application of treatment T11 incurred Rs.1030.47 to produce the seedlings with same as that of control and it took 74 days only. Though the treatment T11incurred little bit higher cost than other treatments it produced good quality seedlings and also reduced the nursery period.In the present investigation, application of 200 mg of N, 300 mg of P2O5 and 200 mg of K2O along with Vermicompost (5g), Azospirillum (5g) and Phosphobacteria (5g) per seedling (T11) has produced healthy seedlings of 38.69 cm height in 74 days.","PeriodicalId":259027,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126772341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethnomedicine for Cuts and Wounds by the Primitive Tribal Groups of North Coastal Andhra Pradesh","authors":"J. Rao, S. Prasanthi, O. Kumar, T. Reddi","doi":"10.54207/bsmps2000-2014-mvu6yk","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2014-mvu6yk","url":null,"abstract":"The primitive tribal groups viz., Gadaba, Khond, Porja and Savara of North Coastal Andhra Pradesh use 33 plants species belonging to 32 genera and 25 families for curing cuts and wounds. Litsea deccanensis and 5 practices among wounds and 6 for cuts among both cuts and wounds and one for both were found to be new.","PeriodicalId":259027,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133573185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Floristic Diversity of Patan District, Gujarat - An Overview","authors":"M. Singhadiya, P. Padhye, R. Pandey","doi":"10.54207/bsmps2000-2014-6y9o1b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2014-6y9o1b","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper deals with 309 angiospermic plants, in which dicots 255 species and monocots 54 species were collected from the various villages and forests area including hill and hillocks of the Patan District, Gujarat state.","PeriodicalId":259027,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130488953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parthenium hysterophorus L. - neither noxious nor an obnoxious weed","authors":"Rajeev Singh, A. Garg","doi":"10.54207/bsmps2000-2014-xnh377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2014-xnh377","url":null,"abstract":"The useful properties of Parthenium hysterophorus L. in terms of its multifarious utility in medicinal, pharmaceutical, pharmacognostic, cosmetic and agricultural sectors are elucidated and the species is established as a medicinal herb with enormous potential in drug designing for diabetes mellitus and cancer, as well as with wide scale applications in cosmetic and nanotechnology-based industries. One more ethnomedicinal use of this plant in joints pain is reported from some districts of Bihar and Uttar pradesh.","PeriodicalId":259027,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124006780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Ramasamy, Sandip Ghate, Poonam Shinde, I. Sekar
{"title":"Study the effect of Inm on Seedling growth and quality parameters of Bixa Orellana L. Seedlings at different stages","authors":"P. Ramasamy, Sandip Ghate, Poonam Shinde, I. Sekar","doi":"10.54207/bsmps2000-2014-9f28k6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2014-9f28k6","url":null,"abstract":"An investigation was undertaken with Bixa orellana the test tree species to standardize ideal Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) techniques for improving the growth of B. orellana seedlings, so as to obtain the best quality seedling within a shortest nursery period. A nursery experiment was conducted by raising Bixaorellana Linn., seedlings in polybags filled with standard soil mixture 2:1:1 (Soil: Sand: FYM) with three levels of nitrogen (100, 200 and 300 mg N per seedling) as urea, three levels of phosphorus (200, 300 and 400 mg P2O5 per seedling) as single super phosphate and three levels of potassium (100, 200 and 300 mg of K2O per seedling) as muriate of potash along with Farm Yard Manure (100g) per seedling, Azospirillum (5g) per seedling, Phosphobacteria (5g) per seedling and Vermicompost (5g) per seedling. The results revealed that the shoot and root length, collar diameter and number of leaves were increased by INM treatments. Application of N, P2O5 and K2O (200: 300: 200 mg) along with Vermicompost (5g), Azospirillum (5g) and Phosphobacteria (5g) per seedling (T11) proved to be the ideal dose to improve above said parameters. The same treatment was also the best in enhancing the dry matter production, volume index, quality index and total chlorophyll.","PeriodicalId":259027,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133062707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethnomedicinal plants of Valmiki Tiger Reserve, West-Champaran District, Bihar, India","authors":"R. Singh, Vineet Singh","doi":"10.54207/bsmps2000-2014-1g4y1v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2014-1g4y1v","url":null,"abstract":"The floristic and ethnobotanical exploration of Valmiki Tiger Reserve present here the ethnomedicinal uses of 70 plants species belonging to 62 genera and 39 families by the local communities and Tharu of this Reserve. Among 82 ethnomedicinal preparations, 39 preparations of 36 species are new as they have not been reported in earlier published literature.","PeriodicalId":259027,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125660098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bamboos Diversity and its Utilization among the Lepcha Tribe of Dzongu Valley, Sikkim, India","authors":"T. Sharma, S. Dahal, S. Borthakur","doi":"10.54207/bsmps2000-2014-2hlsp2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2014-2hlsp2","url":null,"abstract":"Dzongu valley is richly endowed with the bamboo resources and it plays an important role in socio-economy of Lepcha tribe which inhabit the valley. Lepchas are known for their skill and traditional knowledge on bio-resources. They use bamboo for construction of houses, making baskets, prayer flag pole, bow, arrow, fishing devices, house hold articles, handicrafts etc. The present paper deals with documentation of bamboo species occurring in Dzongu valley, along with their local name and traditional products.","PeriodicalId":259027,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products","volume":"14 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113976199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diversity, Distribution and Indigenous uses of Medicinal Plants of Nirmand Block in Seraj Valley, Kullu District of Himachal Pradesh","authors":"S. Vidyarthi, S. Samant, Pankaja Sharma","doi":"10.54207/bsmps2000-2014-k7x9h3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2014-k7x9h3","url":null,"abstract":"The Indian Himalayan Region is one of the richest reservoirs of biological diversity in the world and is considered as a store house of the valuable medicinal plants. In the remote areas of Indian Himalaya, the inhabitants are largely dependent on plants for curing various diseases/ailments. But, due to urbanization and modernization, the indigenous knowledge and traditional practices of medicinal plants are vanishing fast. The Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh is one of the twelve districts, and is a veritable emporium of herbal plants and consists of five blocks (Kullu, Anni, Banjar, Naggar and Nirmand). Nirmand Block (31o25’28\"N and 77o34’36\"E) covers an area of 77.45 km2. The medicinal plants wealth of Nirmand valley has not been explored so far. Therefore, an attempt has been made to; (i) assess the medicinal plants diversity; (ii) document indigenous uses and practices; (iii) analyze for nativity and endemism; and (iv) suggest strategy for the conservation and management of the species. The present study recorded first hand information on 41 species of medicinal plants belonging to 39 genera and 29 families from the Nirmand Block. The recorded species represent trees (06 spp.), shrubs (06 spp.) and herbs (29 spp.). Different parts of these species, such as whole plants, roots, leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, stems, barks, etc. were used by the inhabitants for curing various diseases. Twenty seven (27) species were natives and 14 species non-natives to the Himalayan region. Due to changing environmental conditions and habitat degradation, the populations of many species are depleting fast. Therefore, studies on habitat ecology, development of conventional and in-vitro propagation protocols and introduction in cultivation and natural habitats are suggested.","PeriodicalId":259027,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123461288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Harsha, G. Pradeepkumar, K. Sasikala, K. Kabeer
{"title":"A Preliminary Study on the Grass Flora of Mahe, U.T. of Puducherry, India","authors":"M. Harsha, G. Pradeepkumar, K. Sasikala, K. Kabeer","doi":"10.54207/bsmps2000-2014-8jijx4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2014-8jijx4","url":null,"abstract":"Mahe, U.T. of Puducherry occupies a unique geographical position near to the Arabian Sea. It covers an area of 9km2. A preliminary study on the grass flora of Mahe was carried out. It resulted in the documentation of 58 taxa belonging to 38 genera. In addition, the status, threats and their conservation strategies are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":259027,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128018080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}