Agroforestry

• Agroforestry May Be Solution to Carbon-Neutral Agriculture

  Farmers are being encouraged to use developed technologies and practices to reduce environmental impacts while maintaining production, profitability, and formula through research and innovation.…

• Paper Industry Hails Government’s Support to Boost Agroforestry

  The availability of an additional 25 lakh hectares of land for agroforestry, in addition to the paper industry's own agroforestry drive, will go a long way toward ensuring raw material security for all wood-based industries, according to the Indian Paper Manufacturers Association (IPMA).…

• $47.09 Million Grant from ADF for Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone

  The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a $47.09 million grant for the first phase of Mozambique’s Pemba-Lichinga Integrated Development Corridor, a Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone.…

• Forest Dwellers get benefit from Tamarind Processing

  Tamarind processing has brought new prosperity to the forest dwellers in Chhattisgarh. Chhattisgarh forest dwellers start collecting, processing tamarind. Employment of 10,174 man-days was generated for the forest dwellers through this.…

• Urban Self Sustainable Forest inaugurated in CAG office by Prakash Javadekar

  An urban forest was inaugurated at the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar. The office is located at the Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg. An intensive afforestation approach was adopted as the area was…

• Record Procurement of Forest Produce Does Well for the Tribal Society

  The Ministry of Tribal affairs announced an all-time procurement of Minor Forest Produce (MFP) of Rs.79.42 crores under the Minimum Support Price Scheme. The procurement drive was conducted in almost 16 states. The combined procurement for the year after combining government and private trade has…