Preparation of Forestry Statistics India

A compendium of official statistics of the forestry sector of India

Preparation of Forestry Sector Report India – 2018

Funded by MoEF & CC, GoI

Conducting two training programmes

(i) Refresher course in Statistical Methodologies

(ii) Advanced statistics (Multivariate analysis)

Developing reference material on Statistical Methodologies in Forestry and Environmental Research

There are almost 3000 records of statistical jobs carried out since 1947. The archives available are being studied and digitized for the researchers. In addition to digitization, the records are being converted into Technical Documents of various disciplines of forestry research. These would be of use as reference for research design and analysis.

Determining trends in trade of forest products

Statistical Reports

The Division is in possession of statistics pertaining to the forestry sector for the last twenty years. In addition to this, the data on India’s forests previously collected by the Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture is also available. The division has initiated preparation of reports covering the analysis of important parameters of the forestry sector and trends present. Some examples of the reports being prepared are International Trade, Plantations, Timber Production, etc.