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Expanding plantations shrink forest cover? [1]

Coffee Board chief wants good tree cover over estates

Demand may exceed production in five years from now

CHIKMAGALUR: G.V. Krishna Rau, chairman of the Coffee Board, said on Saturday that tree cover in 1,20,000 hectares of land in the Western Ghats region had been reduced because of expansion of coffee plantations between 1980 and 2000.

Publication Date: 
13/10/2009
Hindu (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Forests [3], Western Ghats [4], Agroforestry [5], Plantation Crops [6], Coffee [7], Karnataka [8], Chikmagalur (D) [9]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/hindu-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forests
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/western-ghats
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agroforestry
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/plantation-crops
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/coffee
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/karnataka
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/chikmagalur-d