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Q1 Encouraging social forestry?
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The growing requirement of rapidly increasing human population has put tremendous pressure on forest. Clearing of forest for agriculture, encroachment of people, shifting cultivation, unmanaged grazing, forest fires and fuel-wood removal are leading to reduction in forest cover and affecting the sustained supply of raw materials. Taking these factors into consideration, social forestry was implemented. Social forestry is a forestry system which aims to create a flow of protection and recreation to the community.

The word “social forestry” was coined by Westoby at the 9th Commonwealth Forestry Congress during 1968 in Delhi. A large population depends on forest for their daily requirements, such as firewood, fuel wood or small timber. They also meet their energy demands from the traditional forest. This leads to severe depletion of forest causing other environmental problems as well.

In order to solve these problems of rural areas, the concept of social forestry was evolved. As mentioned in National Forest Policy 1988, India should aim at maintaining one third of its total land area under forest. So promotion of the planting on non-forest land through social forestry programme is important to improve the green cover of the country. The proportion to be attained is 60 per cent in the hilly areas and 20 per cent in the plain areas.

Planting of trees under social forestry programme generates employment to the rural poor and improves their livelihood. Planting may be done on government lands or community lands or on private lands. It is easy to implement and is a very good strategy towards reducing poverty and improving the food security.

Conceptually, the difference between traditional forestry and social forestry appear to be so thin, as both provide benefit in one form or the other. While, Westoby differentiated between the two by allotting production function to production forestry and protection as well as recreation function to social forestry.

The National Commission on Agriculture brought the supply of fuel, fodder and small timber to the local populations also under the concept of social forestry. Social forestry has remained a rather broad subject, a statement of purpose rather than an operational model.

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