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About The Book:- Focus of this book is not on tree planting as one may mistake but on generating abundant organic raw materials to be used in cottage, village, mini and micro enterprises. It is basically a guide for village entrepreneurs, social workers and multinationals which have to spend in India two percent of their net profit on public welfare and social activities. Gautama Budha said, TO BE A GOOD BUDDHIST ONE SHOULD PLANT SEVERAL TREES IN ONE'S LIFE TIME. This book tells what trees to plant to get many and more benefits out of them for human welfare. Plants and trees, weeds and reeds give the ten 'Fs' needed by people, namely, food, fruits, fodder, fibre, furniture, fertilizer, firewood, fresh-air, fresh-water, fabrics and more. Says the author : “PLANTS AND TREES CAN LIVE WITHOUT PEOPLE BUT PEOPLE CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT THEM”. This book explains several medicinal plants as well and their uses and recommends cultivation and propagation of halophytes which grow in sea or saline water; 1560 species have already been identified by the university of Arizona. Humanity can survive by exploiting the sea and the saline tree. Water hyacinth which the author calls, GREEN GOLD, and many other aquatic weeds and reeds are given due importance in the book. Mushrooms, Soya beans, Salicornia and a score of other similar plants are recommended to change the face and economy of rural areas, especially in India, Africa and all under developed and developing countries., ABOUT THE AUTHOR:- The author an environmental scientist who was a director in the Indian ministry of Industry and advisor to the ILO and UNIDO of the United Nations had trained hundreds of officials deputed by the state governments to develop community development blocks of the CD Movement and also officials from Africa deputed by the International Labor Organizational during the fifties. He was associated with the CD movement for ten years i.e. from the start to finish and then the movement was left to move forward with the wind in it's own sail. He gained his experience in promoting grassroot projects, community organizations, cooperatives and appropriate technology in several states in India including Kashmir where he was posted to help industries. He was industrial advisor to the Island republic of Seychelles and thereafter to some African countries and Nepal; received awards from the UK, USA and the UN and declared MAN OF YEAR 1995-1996 by the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge. Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Carter and Ryan were honored with the Global environment achievement award by the UNEP in 1989-90. Ryan writes with the conviction that poor will remain poor if they depend on the technology of the rich and helping the poor to promote local organic raw materials, appropriate technology and nearby markets is the best way of helping them towards self sufficiency and progress. He has published several books on different subjects all pertaining to rural development and appropriate technology., CONTENTS:- Dedicated to My Father i Foreword iii Preface v Introduction 15 Integrated Small Farming. 19 Fertilise Your Soil By Legumes 21 Potentialities of Castor 22 Uses for Fibre 23 Tropical Soft wood 24 Callophyllum Inophyllum 25 Neem leaf Protects Stored Grain 26 Alley Cropping 27 Caustic Soda from Banana Bark 29 Papaine from Papaya 30 Datura Stramonium relieves Asthma 31 AGAVE-for excellent Fibre 32 Uses of Pongamia Glabra 32 Starch from Casava 33 Instant Okra 34 Vegetable Growing Inside Automobile Tyres 35 Hybrid Sunflower 35 Growing Mushrooms on Paddy Straw 36 More About Mushrooms 37 Oyster Mushrooms 38 Sisal & Accacia to protect plants 38 Sisal fibre Extraction and Uses 39 “Sun Rise Solo” Papaya 40 Ceylon Spinach 41 Neem Tooth Powder 42 Asphalt Vasaka Building Slabs 43 Tropical trees that yield colours (Dye stuffs) 44 Leaves for serving meals 46 Preserving Sugarcane Juice 48 Process-step by step 48 Drought tolerant Tamarind 49 More About Neem 50 Trees that give Gums & Mucilages 51 More Trees Yielding Gum 53 Plant Insecticides 54 Beanana Fibre Extraction 55 South Indian way of thatching 57 Soap with village materials 57 Water Purification in Small Wells 58 African Region 60 Asian Region 60 Mosquito Smoke 61 Some Useful Shrubs (found mostly in the Northern hemisphere) 62 Multipurpose Mangium 63 Use Leaves as Insecticides 64 Plant Tress for Prosperity 65 Blessings from Tress 66 Recommanded Tropical Trees — List One 68 Flowering Trees For The Tropics 73 Emblica (Indian Gooseberry) 74 Grow your own fodder - I 75 Pulp Giving Grass 76 Some Aromatic plants 78 Plant & Tree Potash 80 Some Simple ways of Extracting Fibre 81 Soay for Protein Diet 82 Fibre yielding plants trees 83 Use Leaves as Fertilizers 84 Useful Plants of Kholli Hills 86 Leucaenaleu Cocephala 87 Growing Mangosteen 88 Employment Possibilities with Jambol 89 The Aider Tree 90 Indian Almond Tree 91 Uses & Employment 91 Ailaanthus for Saline Soil 93 Indian Acalypha 94 Go Slow with Eucalyptus