This book has been developed for aspiring graduate and postgraduate forestry students appearing in various state and national level exams such as ICAR-JRF, SRF, ARS, NET, RO, ACF, IFS prelims. It covers all the core subjects of the forestry along with some untouched topics such as Rangeland Management, Forest Engineering, Forest Economics, Forest Tree Seed Technology, Statistics, Tree Physiology, Forest Soils, Forest Protection and General Agriculture. Efforts are made to cover all the important topics from the examination point of view. The main aim of the book is to provide all the important information related to forestry asked in various competitive examinations. All the important fact and figures have been provided in a brief to make it easy to understand and learn. There is a critical need of knowledge for competitive exam in forestry, therefore this book has been written for encouraging competitive skills for graduate and postgraduate students for taking admissions in ICAR or ICFRE institutes especially in forestry and allied discipline.
Preface “A forest is not a resource for us, it is life itself. It is the only place for us to live” so is true the death of the forest is the end of our lives. Thus, the increasing significance of the forest in human lives has intended the students to take up professional forestry courses in the last few decades. The last few decades we have witnessed enormously growing competition in the field of forestry. In this era of immense competition, availability of all the important forestry related study material to students at a single stage is a boon. The book has put together all the important forestry related information to our aspiring graduates and postgraduate forestry students appearing for various state level and national level exams such as ICAR-JRF, SRF, ARS, NET, RO, ACF, IFS prelims. These multiple-choice questions will help the students to understand the deep perception of the subject and would add to their knowledge. The book covers all the core subjects of the forestry along with some of the untouched topics such as Rangeland Management, Forest Engineering, Forest Economics, Forest Tree Seed Technology, Statistics, Tree Physiology, Forest Soils, Forest Protection and General Agriculture. The book covers multiple choice questions of all the subjects related to the forestry and efforts are made to cover the important topics from the examination point of view. It includes original previous year ICAR-JRF question paper. The book is written to acquaint all the UG and PG forestry students with the important information asked in the competitive exams. It is sincerely hoped that the students of forestry will find this book quite useful and prove beneficial to them. This book incorporates all the crucial and important information of forestry subjects in a single volume to save the time of students in search of material in other books. Authors convey their gratitude to the entire management of New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi for taking all efforts in the publishing of this book. Authors are highly thankful to all those persons especially research scholars as well as various books, periodicals, magazines, newsletters, journals etc., that helped in the preparation of this book. We especially acknowledge the crucial role of external reviewers and offer our profound thanks for their generous contributions, which certainly improved the quality of this publication.
