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MERINO SHEEP

ANGORA GOAT

BACTRIAN CAMEL

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TIMBER Lumber or timber is wood in any of its stages from felling through readiness for use as structural material for construction, or wood pulp for paper production. (The distinction between the two terms is discussed below.) Lumber is supplied either rough or finished. Besides pulpwood, rough lumber is the raw material for furniture-making and other items requiring additional cutting and shaping. It is available in many species, usually hardwoods. Finished lumber is supplied in standard sizes, mostly for the construction industry, primarily softwood from coniferous species including pine, fir and spruce (collectively known as Sprucepine-fir), cedar, and hemlock, but also some hardwood, for high-grade flooring. There are over 150 species of timber which are produced in India.

FRUIT TREE A fruit tree is a tree which bears fruit that is consumed or used by people all trees that are flowering plants produce fruit, which are the ripened ovaries of flowers containing one or more seeds. In horticultural

usage, the term 'fruit tree' is limited to those that provide fruit for human food. Types of fruits are described and defined elsewhere , but would include "fruit" in a culinary sense, as well as some nut-bearing trees, such as walnuts.

MEDICINAL PLANTS Medicinal plants are various plants used in herbalism and thought by some to have medicinal properties. Few plants or their phytochemical constituents have been proven to have medicinal effects by rigorous science or have been approved by regulatory agencies such as the United States Food and Drug Administration or European Food Safety Authority. Pharmacognosy is the study of medicines derived from natural sources, including plants. The American Society of Pharmacognosy as "the study of the physical, chemical, biochemical and biological properties of drugs, drug substances or potential drugs or drug substances of natural origin as well as the search for new drugs from natural sources."

FIBER PLANT

Fiber crops are field crops grown for their fibers, which are traditionally used to make paper, cloth, or rope. The fibers may be chemically modified, like in viscose or cellophane. In recent years materials scientists have begun exploring further use of these fibers in composite materials. Fiber crops are generally harvestable after a single growing season, as distinct from trees, which are typically grown for many years before being harvested for wood pulp fiber. In specific circumstances, fiber crops can be superior to wood pulp fiber in terms of technical performance, environmental impact or cost. Botanically, the fibers harvested from many of these plants are bast fibers; the fibers come from the phloem tissue of the plant. The other fiber crop fibers are seed padding, leaf fiber, or other parts of the plant.

OIL PLANT Oils, oleoresins & extracts from plants are used in a wide variety of ways in food, as medicine, in cosmetics & toiletry, as ingredients for industrial products, as fuel, and more. We present web resources for the various plant oils and their applications. By the term plant oils, we refer to oils that are derived from one or more parts of a plant, shrub or tree. Hence the oil could be from the root, stem/bark, leaves, flowers, seeds, fruits and whatever else could be a part of the plant! Plant-derived oils can be broadly classified into two: Essential Oils & Fixed Oils. Essential oils are volatile, and are usually derived from the non-seed parts of the plants. Most fixed oils are the so-called fatty oils, and a majority of the fatty oils are derived from the seeds hence the term oilseeds, meaning oil-bearing seeds. Some of the fixed oils are derived from vegetables & nuts.