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Jadav "Molai" Payeng (born 31 October 1959) is an environmental activist [1] and forestry worker from Majuli, [2] popularly known as the Forest Man of India. [3] [4] Over the course of several decades, he has planted and tended trees on a sandbar of the river Brahmaputra turning it into a forest reserve.
The trained volunteers then plant saplings, trees in groups on available land. Local government authorities also provide vacant plots, land on highways sides and on the hills for tree plantation. Ek Kadam Sansthan [72] of Jaipur, India is involved in many plantation projects including one tree my duty to plant trees on the earth. The Ek Kadam ...
By planting four plaksa trees a person doubtlessly obtains the fruits of Rajasuya sacrifice. One who plants five or six mango trees attains the abode of Garuda and lives happily forever like gods. One should plant seven palasa trees or even one. One attains the abode of Brahma and enjoys the company of gods by doing so.
Daripalli Ramaiah (also known as Chetla Ramaiah, Vanajeevi Ramaiah; born 1937) is an Indian social worker known for his social forestry initiatives. He is the recipient of the Padma Shri award for the year 2017, for his invaluable contribution to extending tree cover. [1]
A Timberjack wheeled harvester stacking cut timber in Finland. Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests and woodlands for associated resources for human and environmental benefits. [1]
The planting of trees on marginal crop and pasture lands helps to incorporate carbon from atmospheric CO 2 into biomass. [29] [30] For this carbon sequestration process to succeed the carbon must not return to the atmosphere from biomass burning or rotting when the trees die. [31] To this end, land allotted to the trees must not be converted to ...
Spacings of 1.2 m, 2.7 m, 3.7 m, and 4.9 m were used, and trees were measured 6, 12, 16, 26, and 30 years after planting. At wide espacements, trees developed larger diameters, crowns, and branches, but (at 30 years) basal area and total volume/ha were greatest in the closest espacement (Table 6.38).
She planted more than 30,000 saplings and looked after the nurseries of the Forest Department. Her work has been honoured by the Government of India and other organisations. [1] [2] [3] In 2021, the Government of India awarded her the Padma Shri, the country's fourth highest civilian award. She is known as the "Encyclopedia of the Forest" for ...