M. P. Singh

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M. P. Singh

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M. P. Singh , T. Johri

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M. P. Singh , Prashant Singh , Anjana Singh

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Three years of extensive exploration study for invasive alien species in Varansi district has been summarized in this article. 120 important alien species are recorded with their legitimate botanical names, families, origin, habit, habitat and uses. Some important plants are Ageratum conyzoides L., A. houstonianum Mill., Alternanthera pungens Kunth., Argemone mexicana L., Chenopodium album L., Croton bonplandianum Baill., Eichornia crassipes solms, Lantana camara L., Parthenium hysterophorus L., Calotropis gigantea (L.) R. Br., Cassia occidentalis L., Cryptostegia grandiflora R.Br. etc.

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Invasive Alien Species, India, Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi

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M. P. Singh ¹, P. P. Bhojvaid ¹, S. R. Reddy ¹, Jawaid Ashraf ¹

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1 Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, IN

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The shift from decrease to a trend of increasing forest cover associated with economic development of a nation or to a geographical region is referred to as forest transition. Studies indicate that earlier stage of human development is marked by high forest cover and low deforestation but increase in incomes accelerate the rate of deforestation leading to loss of forest cover; but at incomes beyond a certain level, the rate of deforestation reduces; then the trend reverses and a slow increase in forest cover is seen. Evidences of Indian forest transition were tried to be traced from the Land Use and Land Cover Change for the period 1880-1980. Supplementing this data with the recent forest cover data of FSI from 1990 onwards, an attempt has been made to characterize forest transition in India. Deforestation was the dominating aspect in the initial temporal phase (till 1980), large scale afforestation/rehabilitation, social forestry and agro-forestry programmes of the state and central governments dominated the temporal phase of forest transition in India during the period of 1980-2000. Conservation and sustainable management of forests dominated the later phase 3 (Beyond 2000). Timber production from government forests gradually declined about 2 million m from the forests (excluding trees outside forests) in 2010 while most of the wood produced in the country come from trees outside forests (TOF) grown in private lands under agro-forestry, along the roads, canal, homesteads, etc. It's predicted that in a business as usual scenario, the forest transition in India will follow the trend as established in the last three decades and it is projected that the forest cover will increase to 71.34 million hectare in 2020. Forest transition trajectory in the forest transition curve indeed serves an easy instrument for testing the effectiveness of government interventions and policy implications.

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Afforestation, Conservation, Forest Cover Change, Forest Transition, Deforestation, Forest Degradation, Policy Implications

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M. P. Singh ¹, S. P. S. Rawat ¹, R. K. Tiwari ¹, N. Q. Qazi ¹, S. P. Rai ¹, J. V. Tyagi ¹

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1 Climate Change and Forest Influence Division Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, 248006, Uttarakhand, IN

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The purpose of this study was to establish rainfall-runoff relationship amongst the hydro-meteorological and vegetation characteristics and other site parameters at micro-watershed level. It brings out the assessment impact of forest on hydrological behavior. Efforts were made through present study, in which two micro-watersheds namely Arnigad (Dense Oak Forest) and Bansigad (Degraded Oak Forest) near Mussoorie, India were monitored continuously for the period of three years. The present study indicated that a dense forest cover regulates stream flow and controls the high peak flows, resulting in delayed discharge peaks which makes stream perennial and sustainable.

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Rainfall-runoff Relationship; Oak Forest; Key Words: Degraded Forest; Hydrological Processes; Micro-watershed

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M. P. Singh ¹, S. R. Reddy ¹, Jawaid Ashraf ¹

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1 Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, IN

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Prashant Singh ¹, M. P. Singh ²

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1 Department of Botany, Udai Pratap (Autonomous) College, Varanasi, IN
2 Mahatma Ghandhi Kashi Vidhyapeeth University, Varanasi (U.P.), IN

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R. K. Anand ¹, Neelam Khare ², S. V. Dwivedi ¹, M. P. Singh ¹, Rajiv Umrao ²

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1 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Sonbhadra, At: CRS Tissuhi, Marihan, Mirzapur, U.P., IN
2 School of Forestry and Environment, Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad, IN

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Sonbhadra is one of the important districts in Uttar Pradesh, where characteristic feature of growing trees in the farm land under traditional agroforestry system is continuing since generations. Present study was done to find out adoption status of predominant agroforestry practice in the district. Total 300 farmers were selected from six blocks of the district by a multistage sampling and semi-structured questionnaire survey was conducted among them. Madhuca latifolia, Butea monosperma and Tectona grandis trees were found highly adopted under agri-silviculture system on farmlands of the study area, wheareas, Emblica officinalis and Psidium guava were given first preference by the respondents for future adoption under agroforestry. Low water requiring crops were generally grown in combination with tree component under different agroforestry systems. Farmer prefer boundary planting and scattered planting pattern to grow tree species in their farmland under agroforestry system. Policy problem, shading effect, lack of market facility, long gestation period of tree and difficulty in cultural operation were expressed as main constraints in growing and further expansion of agroforestry trees on farm land in the district Sonbhadra.

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Traditional Agroforestry, Species Adoption, Scattered Planting, Constraints.

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