Importance Of Social Forestry

The study is partly exploratory and partly descriptive. It is based on both primary and secondary data .The primary data have been collected in the field of enquiry through the multi –stage stratified samples teachniques.

The secondary data have been collected from different sources like reports and brochures of the department of forest, Government of India, state forest report directorates of forest ,government of West Bengal. Reports published By the Indian Statistical Institute(ISI) .

DISCUSSION : Social forestry has a great importance in the growth of national economy. Output from forest has rapidly gone down over a last number of years. During the post-independence period, India has

The solution to the continued accumulation of heat trapping gases in the atmosphere requires a reduction in the use of fossil fuels, control of deforestation, and efforts at reforestation . To avoid having to reduce use of fossil fuels, efforts may be made to control the entire problem by better management of forests , but such efforts will be inadequate. The problem is too large to be controlled without reducing current use of fossil fuel in the developed world and avoiding in expansion of use in developing countries. Management of forest is secondary , but vital as part of the solution. A significant effort will require both intensive reforestation of large area and systematic , large reduction in use of fossil fuel. The human enterprise has passed the point where the energy require to support it in its present form can be obtained entirely through green plants . Biomass may provide a partial substitute for fuels , but a variety of other source will be required . During the past ten thousand years , global forest cover has been reduced by about one third, from an estimated 6.3 x 109 ha. A considerable proportion of the historic deforestation has taken place in the temperate and boreal region to needs of an expanding

Attention from all country not uniformly done to the environment services of forests such as soil and water conservation offering a habitat for diverse flora and fauna and a rich reservoir for bio-diversity.

2. Participation in ecological cycles (for examples ,carbon, oxygen, nutrient, hydrologic ) and policy making communities as both national and international levels are very poor.

3. National land use policies that promote conservation and sustainable development of forest should be developed and implementation.

4. The implementation of the programme was affected in some of the cases due to lack of coordination between the Forest Department and block agencies. No follow up action was taken up by the implementing agencies in almost all the cases for getting feedback on implementation through regular fields visits.

5. In some of the cases , the beneficiaries under Farm Forestry were in fact big farmers whereas the programme was meant for small marginal farmers.

6. Sometimes funds were sanctioned in time whereas in most cases the programme suffered due to late release of fund by the District Rural Development Agencies (DRDA) under social forestry components of National Rural Employments Programme (NREP),Drought Prone area Programme(DPAP)