XI WORLD FORESTRY CONGRESS Antalya, Turkey, 13 to 22 October 1997
	VOLUME 3, TOPIC 12 SUMMARIES OF VOLUNTARY PAPERS Use of Intensive Soil Working Technique in Afforestation of Wastelands. V. R. Singh1 The degraded forest wastelands are prone to heavy grazing and are consequently eroded and compacted. Therefore, 90% of rain water runs away leaving very little portion of it to percolate into the sub-soil. By traditional pit planting method only about 20.25 m3 rain water can be harvested per ha at given time. This is highly inadequate. The paper deals with technique of water retention through ploughing and digging of 'V' shaped furrows intercepted by small bunds at 2m intervals. By this technique1500 mcube of rain water can be harversted per ha at a time. This technique is very relevant to plain areas of low rain fall and high temperature zones, particularly, the drought prone areas of Maharashtra state. 1 Indian Forest Service, Director, Forest Guards Training School, Shahapur, Thane-421 601 Previous Section Next Section   Download the Pdf file for this topic (332 K) What is a Pdf file ?   Back to Top of the page
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