T. N. Srivastava

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The author pays glowing tributes to the rich traditions of forestry and the forest service in India. The role played by Dr. Brandis in the genesis of forest service in the country is prominently discussed. There are extensive quotations from the long and illustrious career that the author had in serving the cause of forestry. The author advocates highest technical proficiency and greater power and authority of the present day foresters for meeting the challenges being thrown by the crisis in forestry.

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T. N. Srivastava

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The paper describes different type of forests found in the country. The ancient, medeval and modern status of forests in the country had been described in detail. The present problems which the forestry sector is facing have been dealt with in this paper.

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T. N. Srivastava , I. M. Qureshi

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The paper focusses attention on the urgent need for afforestation of ten major categories of difficult sites which pose problems to foresters in India. These are; (1) Shifting sand dunes in desert areas, (2) Saline and alkali soils, (3) Ravine lands, (4) Skeletal soils, murrumy soils, and rocky sites including denuded hill slopes, (5) Laterite and lateritic soils, (6) Coastal sea board, (7) Shallow and heavy black soils with or without lime concretions, (8) Cold deserts, (9) Water-logged areas, and (10) Littoral swamps or marshes, and raised mud flats. The characteristic features of each of the above types of areas have been described, together with the work done, difficulties experienced, species used and techniques followed. The extent of these areas is considerable as they total up to no less than 77 million hectares. Apart from the protective and ameliorative value of afforestation to these degraded sites, it is imperative to put these 1ands to productive purposes in view of the ever-increasing demand for firewood, timber and raw materials for wood-based industries in the country. This can be achieved on1y if a com.prehensive study of the edaphic, hydrological, ecological and silvicultural aspects of the problem is undertaken. This is being done at the Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, and the Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur, in collaboration with the State Forest Departments.

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In the context of present day requirement of wood, both for local anddomestic consumption and for wood-based industries, large scale plantations have become a sine qua nan for India. Accordingly, a provisional target of about 56,000 ha (14lakh acres) has been used for the IV Plan exclusively for fast-growing species for industrial consumption. This excludes a considerable area which is planted up annually as a part of normal programme of regeneration and reboisement. To undertake all this work, mechanisation of plantation operations becomes inescapable, particularly in areas where manual labour in the interior of forests is either not available or is available at a time when forestry operations are over since the period of forestry works and the agriculture operations synchronise and overlap. The paper, therefore, focuses attention on various aspects of the problems and discusses the advantages of mechanisation including better soil working, reduction of weeds and saving in expenditure, etc., that are achieved with mechanisation of plantation operations. The paper also deals in general with the equipment needed and used, with particular reference to conditions of U.P. One of the important aspects of mechanisation in U.P. is its adaptability to conditions of taungya cultivation which greatly contributes to the production of food crops from forest areas and which is of great significance in the present food shortage. Considering this limitations of use of mechanised equipment, it is conceded that such equipment is suitable only for plains or gently sloping land and not for such hilly slopes where the equipment will either not feasible to operate or where it is not advisable to use in the interest of soil and moisture conservation or amelioration of the site.

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