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Gums and resins from an important group of non timber forest products. India is among the five large gum producing countries. Annual trade is in several thousand tonnes, Indonesia, India and China are among the world's biggest producer of gums and redind. The Producation of gum and resins is also a source of livelihod support to millions of people residing in dorests besidees being a major source of employment. People living in semi-arid region depend on collection of gums and resins for cash income and livehood. The book deals with important issues on conservation of natural gums and resins in their natural landscape and ex situ conservaion, sustainable harvesting, processing, storage, value addition and marketing.

Most of these gums and resind are collected from forests and are high value produce. India is an important exporter of gum karaya, guar gum, Iac and psyllium. A number of other gums like Gum Ghatti, Guggal gum etc are also collected of papers on these gums giving scientific insights about production, harvesting, post harvest care and marketing.