India: Sound agro-forestry plan but little progress

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Agro-forestry practices are gaining popularity in India as the mix of commercial trees and crops geneartes early sources of income some of which can be used for tree crop maintenance.

Agro-forestry is being promoted to supply commercial timbers such as sandalwood, agarwood and red sanders mixed with other hardwoods such as teak, laurel (Terminalia tomentosa), haldu (Adina cordifolia), kalam (Mitragyna parviflora), rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia), sissoo( D.sissoo) and other local species.

Interest is growing in the so-called ‘five storey‘ agroforestry comprising native hardwood trees, exotics between the hardwoods, Fruit trees, vegetables and climbers and underground spices. In related news, at the 10th Sustainability Summit organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Union Environment Minister, Prakash Javadekar, explained the Central government’s decision to reforest degraded forests through public-private partnership (PPP) mode.

The National Agro-forestry policy 2014, which emphases farm forestry and agro forestry, has not resulted in much progress on ground. Commentators in India say there is a need to scale-up already-developed agro-forestry models using indigenous species for ecological sustainability and economic expansion as over the past 10 years timber imports have jumped to more than US$5 billion because domestic timber resources are limited and demand has surged.

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