Assessing the Potential of Incentive Based Plantation Involving People's Participation

Bhaskar Sinha; Shashidhar K. Jha; Anil Kumar Khare

doi:10.36808/if/2015/v141i4/68926

Assessing the Potential of Incentive Based Plantation Involving People's Participation

Authors

Bhaskar Sinha Indian Institute of Forest Management, Nehru Nagar, Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh)
Shashidhar K. Jha Indian Institute of Forest Management, Nehru Nagar, Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh)
Anil Kumar Khare Indian Institute of Forest Management, Nehru Nagar, Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36808/if/2015/v141i4/68926

Keywords:

CDM A R Projects, Rehabilitation, Plantation, Incentive Based Plantation.

Abstract

To encouragemore forestry projects under CDM and other incentive based mechanism, a pilot study was undertaken at household level in Ratlam district of Madhya Pradesh, India, which has a large area of agriculturally unproductive and degraded land. A total of 50 farmers were randomly chosen to know their perceptions and preference in order to take up plantation on modalities of CDM A R projects. The survey showed that majority of farmers expressed their willingness to raise plantation on private land on the basis of co-operative model. The study concluded that Ratlam district has the potential for taking up CDM A R projects and also for any other incentive based plantation, as majority of the pre-requisite factors and conditions required for making CDM A R projects can be fulfilled.

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