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Natural Vegetation
a. Mention the typical characteristics features of Tropical Deciduous Forests.
b. Name two important varieties of trees growing in these forests.
a. Its tree sheds leaves annually.
b. Teak and Sandalwood
Mention two reasons to explain why there is a higher percentage of forest cover in North East India.
Hill topography, favourable climate specially rainfall and temperature are responsible for the high concentration of forests.
Mention any four aims of the revised Forest Policy of 1988.
i. Checking the extension of sand-dunes in the desert areas of Rajasthan and along the coastal tracts.
ii. Increasing substantially the forest/tree cover in the country through massive afforestation and social forestry programmes, especially on all denuded, degraded and unproductive lands.
iii. Meeting the requirements of fuelwood, fodder, minor forest produce and small timber of the rural and tribal populations.
iv. Increasing the productivity of forests to meet essential national needs.
The biggest problem of Indian forests in the fast dwindling forest cover. Mention two reasons for this conditions.
i. Large areas are cleared for agriculture.
ii. Over grazing
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