Vineeta ..

• Ph. D
• Professor (Assistant) at North Bengal Agricultural University

Traditional large cardamom agroforestry system in the Indian Eastern Himalayas is known for their important role in soil conservation and fertility management. The present study evaluated the impact of altitude and soil depth on soil organic carbon (SOC) storage and soil nutrient status under this system. Standard analytical methods were adopted fo...

People living in forest fringe areas depend primarily on plant resources for their livelihoods. Orally transmitted traditional knowledge (TK) carries considerable information that helps future generations in problem-solving and is unique and specific to the socio-cultural context. In this scenario, ethnobotany evolved to demystify the importance of...

The Himalayan region is a most fragile ecosystem globally. Trees make up around 90 % of the global biomass carbon pool and previous studies have shown that tree carbon balance cannot be easily assessed by conventional methods. Considering trees as a backbone of the forest ecosystem, present study assessed the heterogeneity in tree carbon density us...

The carbon storage potentiality of forest land use systems has been recognized as a major factor in the recent climate change scenario. The current study was designed to quantify the soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks at three soil depths (0-20 cm, 20-40 cm and 40-60 cm) in Gaertn. f. (Sal) plantations along the elevation gradients of 150-300 m, 300-...

The present study was carried out in Darjeeling Himalayas region of West Bengal, India from January, 2019 to April, 2021. The study area was classified into three altitudinal classes i.e., low, mid and high with eleven, nine and five holdings, respectively. The important value index (IVI) of the documented species at the studied systems varied from...

Large cardamom-based traditional agroforestry is an important farming system of the Darjeeling Himalayas. The present study assessed the status of large cardamom-based traditional agroforestry in the context of climate change along with the grower's perception of climate change, the impacts of climate change on this farming system, observed issues...

Understanding the variations in plant diversity, soil physico-chemical characteristics, and biomass storage under an age chronosequence of farm forests is crucial to advance our knowledge of their potential role in biodiversity conservation, soil management and climate change mitigation. The present work was conducted from September 2018 to Februar...

Background. The present paper is an ethnopharmacological review of plants used to treat gynecological ailments

This research aims to study the variation in phytosociology and plant diversity of large cardamom-based traditional agroforestry systems along an altitudinal gradient (700–2000 m) in the Darjeeling Himalayas. We analyzed the changes in phytosociology and plant diversity by adopting stratified random nested quadrate sampling method. The agroforestry...

Urban green landscapes are crucial in the period of drastic population increase, climate change concerns and pollution. Urban forestry conserves biodiversity and provides ecosystem services, thereby increasing the aesthetic value of cities. However, studies on the urban vegetation cover and their quantification are rare in India. Hence, the present...

Urban green spaces are effective extension of carbon sinks in human dominant landscapes to supplement climate change mitigation. There have been several studies on the environmental effects of urbanization, but few studies on the services offered by urban green areas. The current research took place at four urban green sites in Cooch Behar, West Be...

Plant litter production and decomposition is a crucial ecosystem process that defines and governs the plant-soil relationships by regulating the nutrient turnover and the build-up of soil organic matter. Litter is the principal source of organic matter for soils in the forest ecosystem. The litter, upon decomposition, makes available essential nutr...

Homegardens are a traditional human-made microenvironment, socioeconomically connected to people's long-term survival. In India's sub-Himalayan region, studies have been conducted on many aspects of homegardening systems. However, little has been studied on ethnomedicinal plants from this region's traditional homegardens. The current study focuses...

Biomass bioenergy is an essential source of energy in many parts of rural India. Studies show a large scale fuelwood extraction from the local forests has resulted in the degradation of forest structure and composition. A detailed study on fuel wood species diversity and its utilization pattern is lacking for the Indian Eastern Himalayan region. Th...

Background: West Bengal is a state rich in floral biodiversity, with a high occurrence of medicinal plants being used. The state is populated by several ethnic communities, which still rely on various ethnomedical practises. Unfortunately information relating to the medicinally useful species is not holistic or is fraganmentory. We thus felt for a...

Woodfordia fruticosa (L.) Kurz, (Dhawai) is a traditional medicinal shrub widely present in India and South East Asian countries. The natural population of this species is very sporadic because of its lesser germination in normal conditions and is now further declining alarmingly due to unscientific harvesting, which requires urgent conservation ac...

Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni), commonly known as a natural sweetener plant or sweet herb grabs the economic and scientific interests owing to its sweetness and therapeutic properties present in its leaves mainly due to the presence of steviol glycosides (SGs), with stevioside being the most abundant, followed by rebaudioside. Stevioside, the most abu...

Vegetative propagation in Woodfordia fruticosa through shoot tip cuttings having 1-6 nodes with and without cutting aid (commercial growth hormone) was attempted in different seasons to analyze the effect of cutting aid, number of nodes and seasons on survival, rooting and growth of cuttings. Cuttings covered with transparent plastic cups after pla...

Woodfordia fruticosa (Dhawai) is an important medicinal gregarious woody shrub having potential for commercial cultivation due to its great demand in domestic and international markets. Usually, this multipurpose medicinal plant is sexually propagated which do not produce healthy and uniform seedlings due to tiny and micro-biotic nature of seed, lo...

Indigenous large cardamom (Amomum subulatum Roxb.) based agroforestry systems are prevalent in the Darjeeling and Sikkim Himalayas and are life line for people of these mountainous regions. The paper reviews the earlier studies on large cardamom based traditional agroforestry system from Sikkim and Darjeeling Himalayas and outlined the ecosys...

In recent decades, carbon (C) management is an important point on the agenda to identify the best viable mitigation strategies for its reduction. The study was conducted at Jaldapara National Park located in the Eastern Himalayan region of India. The study quantified litter production, decomposition, periodic nutrient release, soil fertility status...

In the modern era, Gmelina arborea plantations are a hotspot of future research because of their high carbon sequestration potential. The present work was conducted during 2018 to 2020 on a young unmanaged Gmelina farm to understand the ecosystem’s carbon and its dynamics. The study area was categorized into three age classes: ≤5, 5–10, and 10–15 y...

Background: Non timber forest products (NTFPs) greatly contribute to livelihood, development, and poverty alleviation of indigenous and rural communities across the tropics. We also assumed that the fringe communities inhabiting Jaldapara National Park (JNP) of Indian eastern sub-Himalayan region largely rely on the NTFPs for their livelihood due t...

TThe common method of propagation of Dhawai (Woodfordia fruticosa (L.) Kurz, through seeds have low germination and seedling survival under normal conditions due to heavy rainfall immediately after the seed maturity and microbiotic seed nature. Hence, an attempt on vegetative propagation through stem cuttings was made to observe the effect of diffe...

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Dear Scientist I sure, you will read carefully before writing and reply as soon as possible. This is the formal invitation to the members of the scientific community, for momentous contributions in the International Standard book entitled “TRADITIONAL AGROFORESTRY SYSTEM FOR CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND MANAGEMENT”. I am pleased to inform that b...

The present study focuses the litter fall production, pattern and nutrient dynamics under Swietenia macrophylla plantation in Terai region of West -1-1Bengal, India. The total litter production was 6920.2 kg ha yr and 8387 kg -1-1ha yr in 2016-17 and 2017-18 respectively. The increase in annual total litter production in 2017-18 was 17% higher than...

The SocioEconomic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011, released in 2015, indicates that out of 24.39 crore households in the country, 17.91 crore lived in villages and are more or less dependent on agriculture and its allied sectors. Hence, multifunctional and sustainable land-use systems like homestead agroforestry/farming among small land-holders to int...

A study was conducted to assess the present status, plant diversity, structure, uses, and importance of homestead garden for biodiversity conservation in Dzongu area, Sikkim, India. Assessment was done by means of multistage random sampling from a total of 100 households using a semi-structured questionnaire. A total of 102 plant species belonging...

The application of machines and better power sources to enhance agricultural production has been one of the most significant developments in agriculture. Mechanization of agriculture is needed for development and optimal utilization of natural resources leading to higher productivity and reduced cost of production for greater profitability, economi...

Book of abstract on national seminar on medicinal Plants

Plant litter production and decomposition is a crucial ecosystem process that defines and governs the plant-soil relationships by regulating the nutrient turnover and the build-up of soil organic matter. Litter is the principal source of organic matter for soils in the forest ecosystem. The litter, upon decomposition , makes available essential nut...

According to Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), ecosystem services are "the benefits people obtain from ecosystems". The MA also delineated the four categories of ecosystem services-supporting, provisioning, regulating and cultural. The natural environment provides a wide range of benefits to people. In agroforestry system, the multi-strata home...

The utility of wood specific gravity value for biomass estimation and its importance in climate mitigation is very vital.The present study was carried out in the campus of Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya (W.B), India from September, 2016 to May, 2018. In the present study 86 tree species were taken for the study and categorized into four class's...

Wild edible plant (WEP) resources not only provide vital food supplies, employment, health care and raw materials for billions in the tropical world but also valuable raw materials, cash crops and timber for the developed world as well. Most of these are cheap and readily available with vibrant taste appeal. Their potential in nutritional, medicina...

Wild edible plant (WEP) resources not only provide vital food supplies, employment, health care and raw materials for billions in the tropical world but also valuable raw materials, cash crops and timber for the developed world as well. Most of these are cheap and readily available with vibrant taste appeal. Their potential in nutritional, medicina...

Midnight Horror tree or Oroxylum indicum (L.) Vent. is a highly valuable medicinal plant used widely in folk medicines of wide genre, ayurvedic formulations and has high demand in pharmaceutical industries. Unsustainable collection from its natural habitat, habitat destruction, and high demand of this valuable plant has threatened its existence pla...

Trees or other woody vegetation growing outside designated forest areas are known as trees outside forest (TOFs). These trees have many ecosystem services and economic benefits like their potential role in agriculture, food supply and income by providing goods and services, conservation of biodiversity and carbon (C) sequestration. They can improve...

In the present study attitude of forest fringe communities around Chilapatta reserve forest in northern part of West Bengal towards use of ethno-medicinal plants in comparison to different socioeconomic factors like gender, age, income, education and material possession etc. has been addressed. The eight villages from district Alipurduar and Chilap...

We expected that the indigenous communities of Jaldapara National Park depend on the non-timber forest products (NTFPs), and there would be a relationship between socioeconomic variables and their dependency on NTFPs. The study also documented the gap between prices of NTFP items at the household level and in local markets. Multistage sampling proc...

Trees outside Forest (TOF) play a critical role in conservation offloristic diversity apart from being reservoirs ofother ecosystem services. TOF includes all the trees, attained 10 cm or more diameters at breast height, availableon lands, which is not notified as forests. The present study was conducted in the Pundibari campus of UttarBanga Krishi...

Adenanthera pavonina L. is highly valued medicinal tree species in forestry. To work on the study related to its problem of germination due to hard seed coat is urgently required for its conservation. An experiment consisting 12 presowing treatments were analyzed to study the effect of pre sowing treatment on germination and initial seedling growth...

Adenanthera pavonina L. is highly valued medicinal tree species in forestry. To work on the study related to its problem of germination due to hard seed coat is urgently required for its conservation. An experiment consisting 12 pre-sowing treatments were analyzed to study the effect of pre sowing treatment on germination and initial seedling growt...

Wood biomass from forest is the major source of domestic energy in most of the developing countries. The present study was an attempt to document information on wood collection, consumption and species used for domestic energy needs by residents of both rural and urban villages in Ranchi district of Jharkhand state, India in different seasons r...

The state of West Bengal is rich with high value medicinal plants on which a large number of communities depend. It is rich with high value medicinal plants on which a large number of communities depend for their medicinal needs. The present documentation has gathered information from published literature on pla nt based traditional medicine used b...

Background: Traditional knowledge on ethnomedicinal plant is slowly eroding. The exploration, identification and documentation on utilization of ethnobotanic resources are essential for restoration and preservation of ethnomedicinal knowledge about the plants and conservation of these species for greater interest of human society. Methods: The s...

The traditional utilization of ethno-medicinal plants used for the treatment of jaundice and other liver disorder is commonly known among ethnic groups. The present study was carried out among the forest fringe villages of Chilapatta Reserve Forest in foothills of the eastern Sub-Himalayan mountain belts of West Bengal. The aim of the study was to...

The present study was carried out in the eight forest fringe villages of Chilapatta Reserve Forest in the Northern part of West Bengal, India.The aim of the study was to document the ethno-medicinal plant resources used against stomach related disorders and their application procedure. A total of 43 plant species belonging to 40 genera and 31 famil...

This book has been constructed to fulfill the dream of younger minds. Book comprises of the multiple choice type questions, true & false and fills in the blanks for JRF/SRF/NET/ARS and other competitive examination. The questions from each and every subject of forestry are constructed with full care and avoid the complication so that students under...

The effect of different growing media and various concentrations of IAA, IBA and NAA on the rooting and shooting of softwood cutting of Terminalia bellerica were investigated in the Research field of Chauras Campus of H.N.B. Garhwal Central University (Uttarakhand), India. For preparing the rooting media Vermiculite, Vermiculite + Sand (1:1) an...

Present study documents the plant diversity, structure and uses of plants of 100 home gardens in Gumla district of Jharkhand, India. A total of 116 species representing 50 families and 102 genera were documented. Dominating family recorded in the gardens was Fabaceae with 20 species. The plant species in home garden were classified as four strata i...

Studies on various genetic parameters were conducted to assess genetic variability, heritability and genetic advance in Centellaasiatica. Exploration and collection was done from far-flung areas of Darjeeling hills (I.e. Kalimpong, Tukdah, Darjeeling, Lava, Kurseong and Sonada) of an altitudinal range of 4000 to 6800 ft ASL. Evaluation of these...