Directorate of Economics and Statistics Ministry of Food & Agriculture Government of India Indian Forest Statistics 1949-50

of the total area under forests and 12.25% of the total Geographical Area of the country. [...] Due to want of comparable data for all the States in the beginning of the period and at the end of the period comparisons are made in this review under each item for Part A :States and Ajmer Coorg and Andaman and Nicobar. [...] The incidence of spike diseases on sandal was on the increase and the attacks were cotrolled by killing the affected trees by applying tree killer solution and by lopping the branches of healthy trees in the neighbourhood. [...] Thus the manufacture of paper from bamboos and grasses the extraction of cutch and katha from Acacia catechu and the collection of lac from the principal minor forest industries. [...] With the end of hostilities and the achievement of Independence the rehabilitation of the forest became the first objec of the State forest deparment.