The main economic aspects of the family Ve benaceae in relation
to the major categories of uses such as timber, medicine, food,
fodder, ornamental, insecticide, dye and live fences in Bangladesh
have been reviewed. Other passible uses have also been noted.
The medicinal uses are grouped disease wise. A checklist of Bangladesh
species with the indication of their economic uses has been appended.

Present seed use (11 kg for a nursery bed of 1.2 m x 12 m)
for kcora {Sonneratia apetala Buch.-Ham.) was found to be at least
55 times higher than the actual requirement for producing usable seedlings
in the Chittagong coastal area. No significant difference was
observed in respect of availablility of seedlings when pregerminated
and ungerminated seeds were sown. Seeds sown by broadcasting
showed significantly better performance than dibbling.

Top shoot borer damage causing high mortality to cane in the
cane arboretum of Bangladesh Forest Research Institute is reported.
The causal pest was identified as Ommatolapus hacmorrhoidalis
(Wiedemann ) (Curculionidae : Coleoptera). The nature and extent of
damage by the pest and susceptibility of different species of cane,
viz., jai or jali bet {Calamus guruba), karak or kirink or- baro bet
( C. viminalis var. fasciculatus), bhudum bet ( C. latifolius) and golak or
golla bet {Daemonorops jenkinsianus) to the pest were studied. Jali
bat was found to be highly susceptible to the attack of the pest
showing 62.7±4.62% shoot infestation whereas the other species were
resistant to the attack of this pest.