Test: Natural Vegetation

The National Commission on Agriculture (1976) has classified social forestry into three categories. These are urban forestry, rural forestry and farm forestry. Farm forestry is a term applied to the process under which farmers grow trees for commercial and non-commercial purposes on their farm lands.

Tropical Deciduous forests are also called monsoon forests. They are spread over regions that receive rainfall between 70 and 200 cm. On the basis of the availability of water, these forests are further divided into moist and dry deciduous.

In the western and southern part of Rajasthan, vegetation cover is very scanty due to low rainfall and overgrazing.

The world's richest regions from a marine biodiversity is Gulf of Mannar biosphere reserve. It covers an area of 105,000 hectares on the south east coast of India.

These forests receive rainfall less than 50 cm and temperatures can exceed a scorching 45 degree Celsius during the hotter months of the year.

The Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve is situated in Uttaranchal, which includes the parts of Chamoli, Almora, Pithoragarh and Bageshwar districts.

Project Tiger has been implemented since 1973. The main objective of the scheme is to ensure maintenance of viable population of tigers in India for scientific, aesthetic, cultural and ecological values.

Bamboo's natural hollow form makes it an obvious choice for many instruments, particularly wind and percussion. There are numerous types of bamboo flute made all over the world, such as the dizi, xiao, shakuhachi, palendag, jinghu and angklung.

Tropical Thorn forests are found in the arid and semi arid parts of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Punjab, Haryana etc.