Minor Forest Produce used in Pharmaceutical and other Industries St edition

The book is first of its kind to cover comprehensive treasure of information on a wide variety of forest products i.e. medicinal plants, essential oils, spices, condiments and savoury plants, edible oil plants, gums, resins and oleoresins, fatty oils, tanning materials, natural organic colouring materials, katha and cutch.

Besides dealing with general importance, occurrence, extraction, processing, storage and uses of the products, group-wise, the book gives a list in alphabetical order of the more important product yielding plants with their botanical, English and local names, their rough distribution, in the country, their agro-silvicultural practices, exploitation, processing and utilisation of more important species under each group. The book is profoundly illustrated with coloured images.

This book is useful to:

- Pharmaceutical and other industries so far as proper exploitation, production, harvesting and utilisation

- Growers, processing and marketing agencies

- Students of pharmacy and Biotechnology