Unasylva - Vol. 3, No. 4













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July-August 1949

A Review of Forestry and Forest Products

FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The way ahead

Conserving resources
Wood consumption needs
Long-term implications

Mysore, 1949

Papers presented to the conference

The Staff of FAO's Division of Forestry and Forest Products
Forest resources - Far Eastern and Pacific regions

Shri G.B. Bakshi
Provision for local needs

S. Kamesam
Meeting Asia's timber needs

J.P. Edwards
Expansion of production and distribution

Other papers

Commodity - Softwood lumber

European exporting countries
European importing countries

The work of FAO

Seventh Pacific science congress
Third world forestry congress
Fourth session of the ECE timber committee
Preparatory conference on world pulp problems

News of the world

General
Silviculture and management
Forest protection
Utilization - New methods
Economics and statistics
Policy, legislation and administration
Meetings
Reviews

Forestry and timber utilization conference for Asia and the Pacific

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