Forest and forest products have provided food, shelter, clothing and other necessities of life to human beings since pre-historic days. With the development of knowledge, men gradually discovered better ways of living. Along with that they discovered better uses of forests and forest products. Thus, at different levels of the advancement of human civilization, men have utilized the forest and forest products in different ways to meet their socioeconomic needs. While men of the Stone Age were satisfied with their abodes in forest caves, eating roots, shoots and fruits of trees and having the leaves and barks of trees as their clothing, the modern men have found other uses for forests and forest products to cater to their socio-economic needs. Forests and trees today, therefore help men in agricultural development, industrial growth, economic advancement, recreation, environmental control and meet the demands of the human being in all walks of life, from cradle to coffin. It is an irony that realization of the importance of forests has been quite jalc. Nevertheless, this late realisation if properly implemented by different nations of the world might save the human being from total destruction. To arouse public consciousness concerning (i) the significance of forest wealth (ii) the direct and indirect benefits derived from the forests and (iii) the importance of forest as a factor in nature conservation the World Forestry Day is being celebrated on the 21st of March every year indifferent countries of the world.