Social-Forestry

Types of Social Forestry

• Farm Forestry: Individual farmers are being encouraged to plant trees on their own farmland to meet the domestic needs of the family. In many areas this tradition of growing trees on the farmland already exists. Non-commercial farm forestry is the main thrust of most of the social forestry projects in the country today.
• Community Forestry: Another scheme taken up under the social forestry programme is the raising of trees on community land and not on private land as in farm forestry. All these programmes aim to provide for the entire community and not for any ....