Agriculture

National Bee Board, FRI to work together to promote honey culture

The National Bee Board and Forest Research Institute will work jointly to promote honey culture programmes in forestry sectors, which will be very useful for poverty alleviation and for improvement

Publication Date: 
26/06/2012
Pioneer (New Delhi)
Tags:
Honey, Honey Bees, Forests, Forest Research, Dehradun (D), Jabalpur (D), Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Joint Forest Management (JFM), Agroforestry, Minor Forest Produce, Agriculture
Forests

Missing the forest for the trees

Tribal affairs minister’s letter to states on the Forest Rights Act highlights the problems of implementation . For most observers, the Forest Rights Act (FRA) is just another “welfare” law.

Publication Date: 
19/06/2012
Shankar Gopalakrishnan
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Forests, Forest Act 1927, Trees, Minor Forest Produce, Forest Management
Forests

Regeneration status of important tree species in Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve due to the extraction of selected non-timber forest products

The species composition, dominance and regeneration status of tree species were studied in two blocks of Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve (AABR) namely [Block II (periphery) and Block I (interior)]. The tree density, sapling density and seedling density was higher in Block I as compared to Block II.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2012
Shabir Ahmad Bhat, Subhash Chandra Tiwari
Indian Forester
138
6
535-540
Tags:
Achanakmar SA, Biosphere Reserves, Minor Forest Produce, Trees, Flora, Forests, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh
Environment

National conference of natural resources based traditional working people and community organisations: Need for collective strategies

In the past few years the struggle on ‘commons’ has intensified around the natural resources by the subaltern people. There is a direct conflict between people whose livelihoods are dependent on these resources and the state. This conflict is getting sharper with the growing onslaught of the neo-liberal policies of the state. In order to fight back the neo-liberal agenda, various people’s movements, social movements and independent trade unions on natural resources, such as forestry, fisheries, mining and water, have come together to fight collectively against the hegemony of the state.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2012
Social Change
42
2
281-285
Tags:
Common Property Resources, Forests, People, Conflicts, Land Acquisition, Great Himalayan NP, Himachal Pradesh, India, Forest Rights Act 2006, Industry, Minor Forest Produce
Forests

Is MSP for 13 minor forest produce the next MGNREGS?

The Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA)'s plan to introduce a Minimum Support Price (MSP) mechanism for 13 items of minor forest produce (MFP) has been approved by the Planning Commission.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2012
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Minor Forest Produce, Planning Commission, Tribals, Forest Trade
Forests

From Jan 1, MSP for forest produce

New Delhi: In what could bring the kind of revolution seen in agriculture, the Centre has decided to provide minimum support price (MSP) for forest produce like tendu, bamboo, resin etc — bringing

Publication Date: 
31/05/2012
Nitin SethI
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forest Products, Minor Forest Produce, Tribals, Forests, Agriculture, India, Ministry of Tribal Affairs
Forests

Speed up forest law implementation: Centre to states

Concerned that the Forests Rights Act was yet to bring benefits to the majority of the forest dwellers in the country, the Centre has told the state governments to expedite the implementation of th

Publication Date: 
29/05/2012
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forests, India, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Forest Rights Act 2006, Displacement, Gram Sabhas, Minor Forest Produce, Forest Resources
Forests

Fishermen demand forest rights

CANNING, 22 MAY: Demanding their right to the forest, Sunderbans fishermen here today said it is forest department officials who flout rules in the biosphere reserve, not villagers.

Publication Date: 
23/05/2012
Statesman (Kolkata)
Tags:
Fisherfolk, Forests, Forest Rights Act 2006, Sundarbans, Tiger Reserves, West Bengal, Biodiversity, Minor Forest Produce
Forests

MSP Panel for Forest Produce soon: Move aims to help tribals earn enough for minor forest produce they collect

The Centre is set to constitute a Minimum Support Price (MSP) commission to fix ‘assured price’ tribals would receive for collecting minor forest produce.

Publication Date: 
21/05/2012
Nidhi Sharma
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forest Products, Minor Forest Produce, Forests, Tribals, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Forest Rights Act 2006
Forests

Bambusa Tulda Roxb., report of gregarious flowering from South India

Bambusa tulda Roxb is distributed in Northeast India, Orissa, Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand and Indonesia. In Andhra Pradesh it has distribution in Visakhapatnam district.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2012
H. B. Naithani, P. V. Chalapathi Rao, B. V. Prasada Reddy
Indian Forester
138
5
484-485
Tags:
Bamboo, Andhra Pradesh, Minor Forest Produce

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