The importance of forest is now being realized in the backdrop of climate change, loss of biodiversity, and ecological and environmental imbalance.

The book has been divided into eight chapters covering major aspects of forestry including definitions of basic terms related to forestry, forest classification, Indian forest policies, forest regeneration, tending operations, forest mensuration, agroforestry and cultivation practices of some multipurpose tree species.

M.U.Kale, Assistant Professor at Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola is well known in the field of Water Resources Engineering. He has done his Masters of Agricultural Engineering with specialization in Irrigation Water Management from Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner.

M.S.Supe, Senior Research Assistant at Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra, India

1.Hydroinformatics 2.Scada and Telemetry 3.Simulation Modeling 4.Hydrologic Modeling 5.Stochastic Modeling 6.Artificial Intelligence 7.Artificial Neural Network 8. Remote Sensing 9. Geographic Information System 10. Commonly Required Crop Data