Social forestry means:
- Management and protection of forest
- doing afforestation on barren land to help the environment and social and rural development.
The national commission on agriculture(1976) has classified social forestry into three categories:
- Urban Forestry
- Rural Forestry
- Farm Forestry
Urban Forestry:
Raising and management of trees on public and privately owned land in and around urban centers such as green belts, parks, roadside, and around the industry.
Rural Forestry:
- Emphasized the promotion of agroforestry and community forestry
- Agroforestry means raising agriculture and forest on the same land
- getting food, fodder, fuel timber, and fruits
- Utilizing the small wasteland to grow the forest
- Community forestry means raising trees on public or community land such as village land, temple land, roadside, railways line, school, canal sides, etc
Farm Forestry:
- It is a process where the former grow trees for commercial and non-commercial purposes on their farmland.
- The Forest Department under the state government distributes seedlings of tree-free of cost to small and medium farmers.
Try to solve the following questions:
- Why has agro and social forestry failed to achieve its objectives? (UPSC 2014, 150 words, 10 marks)
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