NITI Aayog has launched the GROW initiative, focusing on transforming India's wastelands through agroforestry. The Greening and Restoration of Wasteland with Agroforestry (GROW) report, analyses the country's environmental and sustainable land use efforts using advanced remote sensing and GIS technologies. The report offers a detailed state-wise and district-wise analysis, providing …
Tribal farmers in India are being encouraged to plant underutilised indigenous wild trees on their land. This is in response to the fact that, in recent times, farming systems in central India have become less diversified and natural resources are becoming scarcer. Tribal communities living in remote areas are especially …
The article highlights the strength of integrating farmer’s involvement in identifying native species, establishment of plant nurseries in the vicinity, timeliness of operations and shared ownership in terms of protection measures. This is an effort of CAZRI in collaboration with local farming communities to revive traditional agro forestry systems in …
The severity of fuel wood and fodder depletion has been recognized through the hot arid tracts of India, since 70% of rural folk are dependent on them. The intensive study done on Baordi - Bambore watershed indicated that the state of affairs are not the same, as they appear. In …
Field trials were conducted on highly degraded sites on farmers' fields at Neemkheda field and Piparia hill in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh to observe the performance of multipurpose tree species (MPTS) at 2m x 3m and 3m x 3m spacings under different agroforestry practices.
The ethno-botanically important species in traditional agroforests of Nyishi community of Arunachal Pradesh was studied during the year 2004-2005. The plants used by the local people for food, medicine and other ethnobotanical purposes including the utilization and related ethnobotanical aspects were assessed during the survey. A total of 80 useful …
BGPPL Unit: Kamalapuram is one of the best unit in South India for manufacturings Dissolving Grade pulp with annual capacity of 98000 TPA, supplying to textile industries. This unit is located in Kamalapuram of Warangal in Andhra Pradesh. This unit has latest state of the art of equipments and entire …
The crop productivity in Siwalik rainfed areas including kandi belt of Jammu and Kashmir is very low. To improve the agricultural productivity of these areas, a holistic approach through watershed management project was introduced in early 1990 to manipulate land and water resources more efficiently for better crop production. The …
The Second Green Revolution for Sustainable Livelihood of Small Farmers is a Concept Paper developed by BAIF, based on its experience while working with small farmers and weaker sections of the society particularly tribals, across rural India. The aim is to create nationwide awareness among farmers, extension workers, scientists and …
A synthesis of observations from the international conference on Adaptation of Forests and Forest Management to Changing Climate with Emphasis on Forest Health, held in Ume
Large cardamom (Amomum subulatum) is a perennial cash crop grown under the Himalayan alder (Alnus nepalensis) or mix forest tree species in the hills of Nepal, Darjeeling hills, Sikkim and Bhutan. The cardamom based agroforestry system in the Himalayas has proved to be a sustainable land use practice at the …
Forest Act has been made flexible and hence farmers can earn income by growing sandalwood in their land, said Chief Conservator of Forests K Sundar Naik. He was speaking at a workshop on growing new varieties of bamboo and sandalwood at Aranya Bhavana here on Tuesday. Government has released Rs …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The failure of the Forest Department to earnestly take up two revolutionary concepts they themselves had thought up - Simplifly Periyar and organic pepper export - might affect the functioning of the tribal Eco Development Committees (EDCs) inside the Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR). Both the concepts, considered to be …
Carbon capture and sequestration through forests can play an important role in reducing India's GHG emissions, as consumption of fossil fuels is unlikely to slow down given India's reliance on coal power and other non renewable sources. Land use and forest enhancement strategy can provide a significant climate change mitigation …
Many agroforestry programmes, started during 1970s in various countries, suffered on account of ignoring the socio-economic structure of farm households in the design of these programmes. The empirical studies on behaviour of households on on-farm tree cultivation are now gaining importance to design socially acceptable agroforestry programmes to encourage agroforestry …
In the present publication, thirty technologies and approaches from the Nepal Conservation Approaches and Technologies (NEPCAT) database, documented using the WOCAT tool, are being published as printed fact sheets to facilitate sharing with a wider audience. The fact sheets are designed to support the efforts of rural development, especially in …
Farmers and forest managers should be allowed to earn carbon offsets from planting and looking after trees in tropical countries, the Nairobi-based World Agroforestry Center said on Wednesday. "If we want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as quickly and effectively as possible, we need to do everything we can to …
This paper provides an overview of mitigation practices for the agricultural sector, and identifies relevant policies and measures (PAMs). It addresses the relative mitigation potential of each mitigation practice presented, as well as methodological and technical challenges, and possible barriers for their implementation. The paper also identifies win-win options, best …
The majority of farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are small scale entrepreneurs whose farm operations are performed with low input agricultural technologies. Many of these technologies are supported with low input farm power and simple machines. Essentially, low input agricultural technologies are embodied in the refined indigenous knowledge systems. These include …
The widely accepted view that emphasises the negative impact of the decline in common property resources on the village poor generally presumes that village common lands would have been used by all villagers inclusive of the poor without serious differences in the right to access them. Mainly based on historical …
