Commonwealth Forests

bullet1 Chapter 6 Forest Research in the Commonwealth

bullet2 THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT

By far the greatest amount of research on the forests of the sub continent has always been carried out in the country that is now the Republic of India. Most of the generalised historical account given here is a guide also to Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka but, notwithstanding the enormous range of agro-ecological zones in the region, both the past achievements and the challenges for the future may be considered on a regional scale