National training workshops have been so far held in Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. However, one limitation was apparent in preparing the courses the courses- good reference material for forest scientists. Dr. Jayaraman improved and compiled the material he developed for the statistical courses into a manual on statistics for forestry research.
Foresters now have a statistical manual that they can call their own.
The usefulness and quality of the manual has caught the eye of forest research experts and it is going to be distributed in other parts in the world and translated into French by the FAO Headquarters in Rome. Download this document Field Document No. The main objective of this research collaboration was to train scientists from the Central South Forestry University and familiarise them with tools and techniques for social science research. Following the RRA, in May 1999, a discussion workshop was held resulting in the identification of the issues relating to land use and the formulation of questionnaires for a household survey. The household survey covered 147 households in six villages in Hunan Province.