There are many organizations that are carrying out research on
subjects directly or indirectly connected, with forestry . The Commonwealth
Forestry Institute and the British Weed Research Organization were visited
The Forestry Commission research station at Alice Holt could not be visited
as the organization was preoccupied with other visitors during the period .
At Oxford opportunity was taken to discuss the research programme
in East Pakistan in general and the experimental designs in particular . The
consensus of opinion was that replications should be introduced in each
research station. The plot size should be reduced from one acre to quarter
acre and four replications introduced .

Where there is sincere desire and a felt need for
improvement, there must be emphasis on research. In U.S.S.R.
there exists such an emphasis visible everywhere. Large number of research Scientists are engaged in productive research activities in many well-equipped research Institutes dealing with problems of logging and wood-based industries.Adequate funds are provided for annual budget of these institutes. They are provided with pilot plants and experimental
farms where they can try and test efficiencies of various
equipments and techniques designed and developed by them.

Prior to the partition of Indo-Pakistan sub-continent,
the sal forests of this sub-continent were managed under both
high forest systems and coppice systems. Of the high forest
systems-clear felling system and selection system and of the
coppice systems-the simple coppice system and the coppice with
standard system were mostly in practice. Selection system was
the main silvicultural system for sal in the outer hills of
the United Provinces. Selection system was never in practice
for sal in the portion now fallen in East Pakistan and the
only system for sal of this portion was coppice system. As a
result of working under coppice system, the sal forests of
this part have become deteriorated to a great extent.

summary of data for the month of April to June,1971:
station: Forest Research Institute, Chittagong.
Time of observation : 0800 hours.

Family: Elephantidae. ■ -Local name: Hati.
Its long
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ELEPHANT
(Elephas maximus)
The majestic ’elephant which is associated with the
Indo-Pakistan Sub-continent from time immemorial with the
spendour of her princely pageantry is one of the most prized
animal of our forests. Along with the famed Royal Bengal Tigers,
this animal also can rightly claim to be one of the most fabulous
animal of this, part of the country. But unlike the Royal Bengal
Tiger which found its way from northern-cooler country, the
fossil remains prove beyond doubt that the elephants can claim
this Sub-continent as their ancestral home for long 5,00,000
years. Fossil remains of seven species of true elephants and
eight species of mastodons have been discovered in the IndoPakistan Sub-continent. They used to roam around the sub-continent
in the prehistoric days,. One by one they faced extinction and
to-day we are left with .only one species in the whole of the
Sub-continent. East Pakistan having possessed a share of this,
unique species of the;olden days can rightly be proud of.

The coastal belt of East Pakistan covers a substantial part of
Khulna , Bakhargonj , Patuakhali , Noakhali and Chittagong districts along
the Bay of Bengal . In the western part of the belt, lies the Sundarban
Forests with a width of about 60 miles and almost equivalent depth • The
presence of mangrove and other species of the Sundarbans along the stream
banks and around the homestead, almost throughout the balance part of the
coastal belt , indicates that the Sundarban Forests extended throughout the
coastal belt in the past • The ramnants of such forests are still visible
in the Matamuri Delta about 30 miles north of Cox’s Bazar town , known as
“Chakaria Sundarban Forests” .

Month
,n’.)
January,1970. Nil.” 64.2% 5O.5°F
0.47″ 62.07% 89°F
March, 1990. 1.08″ ?V”
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( Data collected by Mr.Abdur Rahman Khan. )
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Rainfall,
total for
the month.
(average for the
month.)
February ,1970
97°F
81°F
64.4°F