Tag Archives: Economic botany

Economic botany is the study of plants, fungi, algae and bacteria that directly or indirectly, positively or adversely affect man, his livestock, and the maintenance of the environment. The effects may be domestic, commercial, environmental, or purely aesthetic. The direct effects refer to the use of food, fibre, fuel, medicine, …

Pulses are dry, edible seeds of legumes belonging to the family Fabaceae. In the past three decades, global pulse production has grown rapidly. In the past ten years alone, the world has produced between 50 and 60 million tons of pulses each year. As of 2015, the world’s biggest producers …

From time immemorial food, clothing, and shelter have been the three great necessities of mankind. Wood is the most familiar and most important forest product. Wood has contributed a lot to the advancement of civilization. Today, wood is the most widely used commodity other than food and clothing. It is …

The term ‘Spice’ refers to any dried part of a plant, used for seasoning and flavoring a dish, but not used as the main ingredient. Parts of a plant including dried bark, roots, berries, seeds, twigs, or anything else that is not the green leafy part, is known as a …