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Abstract:
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"The increased population pressure has resulted in an increasing need for timber/ fuel and fodder which has caused degradation of forest land by excessive tree lopping and overgrazing. An integrated approach has been made to develop a hillock wasteland falling under classes Hies and Vies of land capability classification in watershed management plan for achieving fuel and fodder security in an adopted village Islamnagar under Operational Research Project On Integrated Energy and Nutrient Supply System. An Energy Census and Resource Assessment Survey of this village showed that village was in deficit of fuelwood by 98.8 tonnes (20.8%} and cattlefeed by 812 tonnes (30%).
The total area of the village is about 717.04 ha out of which 61.6 ha is forest land more than half of the forest land comprised hilly terrain and completely denuded of its trees, the rootstocks of which still existed. In order to meet fuelwood and fodder demand of the village, 38 ha appropriate land identified on the basis of land use planning, has been brought under silvipastural development with early growing tree species and high yielding varieties of the grasses. The soil and water conservation measures taken include contour survey, cut off trenches along the contour at 5-10 m vertical interval, vegetative waterways, drainage ditches, cattle protection trenches and kachha service road along the boundary of the area, temporary erosion control structures and micro-catchment water harvesting for insituting water conservation. In addition to meeting fuelwood and fodder demand and other intangible benefits, the silvipastural development of identified wasteland would generate 115421 man-days work during a life span of five years."
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