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In trade year 2008–2009, India imported logs worth $1.14 billion, an increase of about 70% in just 4 years. Indian market for unprocessed wood is mostly fulfilled with imports from Malaysia, Myanmar, Côte d'Ivoire, China and New Zealand. India is growing market for partially finished and ready-to-assemble furniture.
Degraded forest in Lahnberge, Germany: the soil is being washed out due to lack of vegetal cover, some trees are losing ground and they appear to be sick (photo by Andreas Trepte). Forest degradation is a process in which the biological wealth of a forest area is permanently diminished by some factor or by a combination of factors. "This does ...
A reserved forest (also called a reserve forest) and protected forest in India is a forest accorded a certain degree of protection. The concept was introduced in the Indian Forest Act of 1927 during the British Raj to refer to forests granted protection under the British crown in British India, but not associated suzerainties.
mid-dense foliage cover (30–70%) — open-shrubs; sparse foliage cover (10–30%) — tall shrubland; very sparse foliage cover (<10%) — tall open shrubland; For shrubs less than 2 metres (6.6 ft) high, the following structural forms are categorized: dense foliage cover (70–100%) — closed-heath or closed low shrubland—(North America)
Two important rivers of India, the Godavari and Krishna, flow through the state, which provide fertile soil favourable for agriculture. The state is the main producer of Rice and hence, it is also known as Rice Bowl of India. [7] Poultry is another sector in the state contributing to the economy of the state.
Indian retail has experienced limited growth, and its spoilage of food harvest is amongst the highest in the world, because of very limited integrated cold chain and other infrastructure. India has only 5386 stand-alone cold storages, having a total capacity of 23.6 million metric tons. However, 80 percent of this storage is used only for potatoes.
By 1995, 70% of previously forested land in the Amazon and 91% of land deforested since 1970 had been converted for cattle ranching. [10] The remaining deforestation primarily results from small-scale subsistence agriculture [ 11 ] and mechanized cropland producing crops such as soy and palm .