Transcript Potentialities for afforestation and reforestation

Potentialities for afforestation
and reforestation projects
for mitigation of climate change
in
Karnataka
by
V.Rangaswamy
Karnataka
Geographic area: 191791 Km2
(5.8% of the National geographic area)
Forest Cover: 36991 Km2
(5.5% of the country’s forest cover)
Population: 52.73 million
(5.1% of country’s population)
Livestock: 29.57 million
(6.3% of the country’s livestock population)
Total growing stock: 272 million m3
Growing stock/ha: 84m3 (National avg 74m3
Productivity: 1.45m3/ha/annum
(National avg 1.37m3/ha)
(Source FSI)
Potentialities of Karnataka
Forest department
KFD has capacity to implement the
mitigation projects
Experience gained by the
successful implementation of
different projects
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WBASF
WGFP
OECF
IEDP
INEP
IEED (Integrated Ecological Environmental Project)
Potential resources
Land resources
Man power resources
Intellectual resources
JFPM resources
• Land resources
• Forest resources
– Dense forests-26156 km2
– Open forests-10835 km2 (including blanks)
– Total 36991km2
– Change in the forest cover-4524 km2
(2nd among all the states and Uts
– 4th among all the states and UTs in respect of tree
cover
• Common property resources
– Gomal lands
– C& D class lands
– Road sides
– Canal banks
– Burial grounds
– Fore shore areas
Private property resources
-Farm lands rainfed
-Farm lands irrigated
Man power resource
Group A: 359
Group B: 711
Group C: 8016
Group D: 2306
Total:11392
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Temporary: 6258
Intellectual resource
Entire staff above group D are
technically trained
(9086)
JFPM
(Joint Forest Planning and Management)
2945 VFCs are formed in the state for
participatory management
All the above resources have to be
effeciently utilised
1993-Tree patta scheme introduced
Potentialities of Kolar
District proposed for
climate change
mitigation project in
Karnataka
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Geographic area- 8223km2
Dense Forest Cover- 180 km2
Open forest- 386 km2
Total Forest cover- 575km2
Scrub forest – 281km2
Percent of forest- 6.99%
• (Source-FSI State of Forest Report-2001)
• Waste lands- 2310 km2
• Man power-1000 (about)