Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

S. W. Muranjan

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Present study was planned as an extension of our earlier study on the 1987-86 drought submitted to the Directorate in April 1990, under the caption "Impact of 1987-88 drought on the economic conditions of rural people in Maharashtra". The same households sampled for the earlier study. where approached with additional question to meet the requirements of the present study.

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S. W. Muranjan

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Maharashtra has a forest area of 63,920 sq km which is 20.76 per cent of its geographical area. Such a large area of forest in the third biggest State in the country is, however, able to supply only a part of the forest produce required by the industries and the public in the State. The remaining part is met through imports from the other States. With the rapid industrialization of the supplier States and the depletion of forests even in those States, their supplies to Maharashtra have begun to wane.

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S. W. Muranjan

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The forests in Maharashtra were being exclusively managed by the State Forest Department until the incorporation of the Forest Development Corporation in February 1974. Some parts of the forest lands in possession of the Forest Department were transferred to the Corporation with an objective to raise the production of timber, therefrom.

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S. W. Muranjan

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The forests in India are being exploited mainly through use of the (aboriginal) Adivasi labour. The Adivasi communities dwell within and on the outskirts of forest areas and provide labour for the exploitation of forests. Till Independence the Adivasis were being exploited by the forest contractors by employing them on very meagre wages and advancing credits to them in the agricultural season at very high rates of interest against surety of their labour.

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S. W. Muranjan

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Compared to the earlier years, the public sector dairy plants in Maharashtra were able to procure much larger quantities of milk during 1974-75, especially during the winter season. The increase in the procurement was so sudden and substantial that the Milk Supplying Schemes in cities like Bombay and Poona could not only issue milk ration cards to all the families on their long waiting lists but they had also to search for additional clientele to dispose of the extra milk.

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G. S. Chandras , S. W. Muranjan

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It is by now quite clear that our country may well be confronted with an acute shortage of industrial wood unless far-reaching steps are taken to expedite the increase in its production. Two Reports by experts of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the " United Nations as well as the estimates made in the Fourth Five-Year Plan for the country speak of the probable shortages. As against the current production of eight million cubic metres of industrial wood per year, the requirment has been estimated to increase to about 17 million cubic metres by 1970-71 and 24 million cubic metres by 1975-76.

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S. W. Muranjan

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The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics conducted a preliminary enquiry into "factors influencing cropping patterns on individual holdings" by investigating '29 holding in the village Karkheli, in the Nanded district of the Bombay State, in accordance with Model Scheme No. 1 prepared by the Agricultural Economics Committee of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

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