Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) can be defined as all goods derived from
forest and their biomass for commercial and industrial use, which can be
substaintably extracted from a forest ecosystem in quantities and in such ways,
communities, basic reproductive function. For most recorded history, people have
valued forests not only for wood, but for other products also. Modern science
and government overlooked the importance of these Non-Wood Forest wealth for so
long. The answer is three fold. First most of these products are used mainly in
rural areas and go unrecorded. Government includes these products in
agriculture, horticulture and statistics do not recognise as originating from
the forest.