Forestry to Support Increased Agricultural Production: Focus on Employment Generation and Rural Development

作者: SK Dhyani , JS Samra , AK Handa , None

DOI: 10.22004/AG.ECON.47328

关键词: AgricultureSustainable forest managementAgricultural productivitySustainabilityEconomicsFood securitySocial scienceHuman resourcesLivelihoodNatural resource economicsEcosystem services

摘要: India possesses several advantages due to its varied ecological range and agro-climates cultivate important diverse commercial food commodities ranging from cereals, fruits spices medicinal plants. The country has abundance of human resource comprising skilled, educated, technical scientific manpower on one hand unskilled the other. Forests- agriculture-based industries are a major source employment in primary, secondary tertiary sectors all over country. This article presented brief overview potential forest agriculture generating employment, providing livelihood environmental services, sequestration green house gases, carbon trading, rehabilitation degraded lands, production fuel wood, etc. There clear linkages synergies between agricultural sustainable management. If sustainability forests can be assured, security generation would go long-term perpetuity.

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