Activities:
* Establishment and maintenance of nurseries.
* Creation of village woodlots
* Rehabilitation of degraded forests
* Farm forestry
* Pasture/fodder development
* Wetland development
* Strip Plantations
* Institutional Plantations.
Achievements:
From the inception year of 1981 up to 2008, the achievements of the department are given as under:-
Component |
Area Covered
( In Ha) |
Plants Planted ( In Lacs) |
RDF |
50,848.56 |
577.058 |
VWL |
42,329.33 |
366.171 |
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Strip Plantation |
3406.85 |
91.172 |
Institutional plantation |
3816.00 |
51.352 |
Wet land Plantation |
3007.86 |
72.392 |
Pasture Development |
2698.55 |
26.971 |
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Benefits accrued from 1981-82 till date are as under:-
- No. of VFC = 2000
- Grass = 2.3 lakh Qtls.
- Fodder = 4.9 lakh Qtls.
- Fuel/Fire Wood = 2.7 lakh Qtls.
- Khar-Kana = 1.0 lakh Qtls.
- Total value = 20.87 Crores
- No. of beneficiaries = 8,68,588
- Rs. 9.31 lacs has been distributed to VFCs as 75% of the final harvest under SRO-61 till March 2008.
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