The Afforestation of the Dry and Desert Areas of North-West India

The right to enforce complete closure to grazing and grass cutting when expedient encourage grass cutting. NOTE-In the case of land under private ownership handed over to the forest department for restoratiDn, complete closure must be guaranteed for the minimum period considered by the forest department to be essential for afforestation. B. A joint policy for Provinces and States for the reduction of goats and their exclusion from the Forest C. Catchment Control Legislation to be enforced in cases where deforestation is resulting in damage to property within and below the catchment. D. The highest priority to be given to the dry zone species experiments. E. Experimental sowing of desert and semidesert herbs for affording soil cover and fixing sand dunes. (North Africa, Southern U.S.A., Mexico, U.S.S.R. each of the Caspian and Australia contain deserts which might supply useful exotics). F. Upstream control by means of check dams and afforestation. G. Contour control such as trenching, line sowing and ridge teracing. H. The arising of wind-break plantations in cultivated estates, particularly along the border of irrigated and unirrigated land. I. An increased production of fuel plantations on irrigated land to safeguard dry zone forests being overfelled. J. The co-operative use of mecha nization for soil control measurn in Provinces and States which cannot afford the outlay or maintenance. The North-West Frontier provinces wouldwelcome demonstrations.