Captive plantations
Submitted by ipsita on Fri, 1994-07-15 00:00
* User agencies (read industries) will have the right to take up plantation on forest land and to get a stipulated proportion of the produce.
br> * Funds for plantation will come from the user agency.
br> * The minimum area to be granted is 50 ha.
br> * Proposals for proposed plantations will be entertained only after inviting objections from the local community and getting clearance from gram sabhas.
br> * Trees 20 cm or more in diameter cannot be felled and will continue to belong to the government.
br> * Industry will have to meet at least 30 per cent of its requirements from farm forestry.
br> * To check soil erosion, the entire project area cannot be cleared of bushy growth.
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dte
Publication Date:
14/07/1994