6. Forests, Wildlife and Environment - Tamil Nadu Government

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StrategyThe Eleventh Five Year Plan may have to take a new path with emphasison resource mobilization for tree cultivation outside the forest area. The thrustarea of trees outside forests today has emerged as new opportunity not onlyto support increased tree cover but also to improve farm income for the smalland marginal farmers in the State.This Plan will for the first time seek to engage the rural landless poor andthe marginal farmers into tree cultivation and also support the dynamic growthof the primary sector in the state while also assuring that the forests areprotected and conserved for harnessing the expected forest based goods andservices for the benefit of the people in the State. The following are the majorthrust areas, which includes the important schemes of the department to beimplemented during the Plan period.i. Increasing Tree Cover Outside the Forest Areas of Tamil NaduTamil Nadu is one of the pioneer states that initiated “Community forestryprogrammes” (ie) afforestation in the community lands and wastelands asearly as 1960. In the seventies, in pursuance of the interim recommendationsof National Commission on Agriculture, other programmes known as extensionforestry, mixed Plantations and village forests were implemented to developtree cover on all available lands for the benefit of the local community. Fromthe year 1997, under the Tamil Nadu Afforestation Project (TAP), importanceis given to restock/restore the degraded forests. About 20,000 ha of revenue/ community lands have been covered under the component of “Greeningcommunity land “from 1997 to 2002. In fact, after SIDA programme no seriousefforts were made to bring more area under tree cover especially outside theforest area.With the experience and confidence gained from SIDA project and thesuccessful module evolved for participatory approach under TAP, the forestdepartment of Tamil Nadu can go for various community forestry programmesin the available community and wastelands such as Tankfore shore, Revenuehillocks, canal banks, Riverbeds, Road avenues, Tank bunds, etc. The projectenvisages to bring about 7 Lakh Ha. under tree cover during the Plan periodand increase the tree cover considerably outside the traditional forest area.The total outlay proposed for this objective is Rs.375.00 crore.251
The objectives are to bring all the barren community lands, wastelands,public, private lands, institution lands, etc. under suitable tree cover in orderto achieve 33% of geographical area of Tamil Nadu under green cover by 2012.By the end of the Plan period, with the support of extension services allefforts will be made to increase the tree / forest cover to 33% of the land areaas envisaged in the National Forest policy. Tree based business will be given aboost in the state by providing needed technical support and encouragementto all the stakeholders.ii. Increasing Forest / Tree Cover Inside ForestsEven though numerous schemes were implemented, there is still scopefor tree planting inside forest. Continuous efforts to afforest are the only wayto reverse the negative trend.The primary objectives of such an effort are to increase productivity offorest areas, to conserve biodiversity of the area, especially medicinal Plantsto meet the livelihood needs of the local people and to provide ecological securityby enhancing crop density inside forests and eco preservation and ecorestoration by creating tree cover on degraded hills, rocky areas, grassy areasand patches inside forest areas, where reclamation is necessary, due to paucityof tree cover. During Plan period, it is proposed to continue the massiveafforestation and ecological restoration programmes under Joint ForestManagement model, wherever possible. Further the proposals under variousschemes will be in tune with the working Plan prescriptions. The outlayproposed for this objective is Rs.484.11 crore.iii. Tamil Nadu Afforestation Project- Phase-II: (Externally-Aided Project)The Tamil Nadu Afforestation Project Phase-II will continue in the EleventhFive Year Plan. Since the project is an approved ongoing project, the financialimplication for the afforestation works under IWDP and ITDP including bufferzone activities for both the components from the year 2007 08 to 2011-12 isincluded. Similarly the physical target included is only for planting activitiesinside the Reserve forest (RF) in the various approved components.252
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