Press Information Bureau
Government of India |
| Wednesday, August 18, 2010 | |||||
| Ministry of Environment and Forests | |||||
AGRO FORESTRY | |||||
| 17:26 IST | |||||
| The National Forest Policy, 1988 provides for social forestry, farm forestry etc. on the various categories of land other than notified / recorded forests. These activities including agro forestry can be undertaken on non forest land. The State Governments are encouraging plantation of trees on various categories of non forest lands to meet the requirement of the people for timber and timber products to reduce the pressure from forest areas. As per India State of Forest Report (ISFR), 2009,the growing stock of the woody biomass is 1,599 million cubic metre out of the total 6,098 million cubic meter from Forest and Tree cover. Further Gram Van Yojana scheme, mooted by Government of India, envisages planting on non forest land during 12th five year plan. This information was given by the Minister of State for Environment and Forests (Independent Charge) Shri Jairam Ramesh, in a written reply to a question by Shri Ravneet Singh & Shri Om Prakash Yadav in Lok Sabha today. KP | |||||
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