Issue · 1993
Vol. 43, Iss. 1
9 articles · All issues →
ArticlesNew perspectives in forestry research and problems of its Management in Developing countries
K. M. Siddiqui
Significant changes have occurred all over the world in recent past in the concepts regarding nature and role of forests. Forestry has moved from backwaters to central stage in international forums. For almost a century, scientific forestry meant management of…
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Book Review & News and Views: The challenge of sustainable forest management, food and agriculture organization of the United Nations, Rome Italy, 1993
M. Siddiqui
Book Review & News and Views: The challenge of sustainable forest management, food and agriculture organization of the United Nations, Rome Italy, 1993
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The Pledge
M. I. Sheikh
The Pledge by M. I. Sheikh, Ex-DG, PFI, Peshawar.
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M.Sc. Forestry thesis research at Pakistan Forest Institute, Peshawar 1990-92 course
Raja M. Ashfaque
M.Sc. Forestry thesis research at Pakistan Forest Institute, Peshawar 1990-92 course
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Studies on seed insect pests of forest trees
Wali-ur-Rehman
Studies on seed insect pests, conducted in the laboratory at the Pakistan Forest Institute, Peshawar revealed that seeds of 30 out of 70 tree species were infested with 24 insect species. Among them 86% Coleopterous and 5.6% Lepidopterous adults represented 23…
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Sodium Chloride stress studies on growth of some leguminous forest tree seedlings
Muhammad Arif Chaudhry, Altaf Hussain
An experiment was laid out in split plot design in pot culture to study the effect of sodicity, created through three NaCl stresses: 0.044% to 0.351%, 0.132% to 0.878% and 0.308 to 1.580%, on soil pH, plant height and apical dieback in Leucaena leucocephala, A…
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Fuelwood requirement in the Northern Areas of Pakistan
K. M. Siddiqui, Saliheen Khan
Intro: Northern Areas covers 7.04 million ha in the extreme north of Pakistan, forming the upper limits of the Indus basin. It is dominated by jagged granite, snow-covered Hindu Kush mountains in the northwest, the Karakoram mountains in the northeast and the…
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Some improved techniques for raising of forest nurseries
Raja Atta Ullah Khan
Intro: Importance of forest nurseries in any afforestation and agroforestry programme cannot be over-emphasized because planting stock is the basic and most important ingredient of tree plantation. Shisham (Dalbergia sissoo) is the most important multipurpose…
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Ecology of Chrysopogon aucheri and Cymbopogon jwarancusa 1. Germination Response
Mohammad Saleem, C. A. Call
The ability of Cymbopogon jwarancusa (Jones) Schult, to displace Chrysopogon aucheri (Boiss.) Stapf. on Baluchistan grasslands may be related to differences in recruitment potential in addition to differences in payability and grazing tolerance. A controlled e…
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