Agriculture country India, with huge arable land, of which 60% dry can be used for tree growing effectively. It will reduce ground water exploitation, reduce air pollution, will sink carbon and help to achieve the 2015 Paris climate change IND commitment.

1. A Timber Development Board
Needed To
Reduce Wood Import
Meet Paris Climate Change agreement
Save Ground water
Reduce Farmer’s Suicide
And, shall it be under
Agriculture / Forest / Separate Ministry?

2. Trees / Wood
• India Imports 90% of its wood needs.
• Rs 50000 Cr pa, will be a lakh Cr 2022
• Growing std of living increases it’s need
• Wood is eco-friendly, than metals
• Water scarce India competes to export Sugar,
but it Imports less water consuming wood
• Climate change affects all, Trees will reduce
• Drought / Flood resilient Trees
Will Save Farmers from Suicide

3. Can India grow trees?
• India has huge arable & suitable lands
• It has varied climate regions
• Biodiversity rich India, has got matching
tree species for all those conditions & soil
• Farmers wanted to grow trees,
– Due to water scarcity / Labour shortage
• India met Food Prod/ 2nd in Milk prod
Credit to Dr. MS Swaminathan & Dr. Kurian / AMUL
Then, why India imports WOOD?
Once, India was Exporter !!!

4. Because …
Tree Growing is not facilitated But Harassed
• Forest laws, meant for forest protection
– The same is applied on farm trees, wrong
– Export restricted for native unique woods also
• Felling / Transit procedures are cumbersome
• Old method of proof / documentation.
• Farmers treated like thief,
While taking his wood for his own purpose
It is not only farmer’s experience,
many reports confirm

5. Noted Environmentalist, confirms
• Ms Sunitha Narrain Dir General of Centre
for Science and Environment (CSE)
• In her blog “ How not to grow trees”,
“But what really hurts is that planting a tree is
bound up in so much restriction and red tape
that it is not worth effort”
• Note: Generally she is against tree felling to
improve environment, but ie., for forest.
http://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/how-not-to-
grow-trees-57958

6. Shri AK Bansal Committee Report 2012
• Each state has it’s own transit rules
• So Transportation across INDIA is difficult
Hard Truth,
Imported wood is allowed freely for transport,
but not our native woods.
Recommended
MISSION (Long term goal)
“Felling and transit restrictions with respect to
trees planted on non forest private lands are
completely removed”

7. Agroforestry policy, 2014
• 2.3 clause says “obtaining permission
permits for harvesting and transportation are
cumbersome, costly & frustrating and
hence, discourages farmers from
undertaking tree planting on farm lands. It is
also time consuming, mental agony, felt so
much harassment for doing good thing”
Recommended , Ref in 5.1.1, of policy
Need to create a Mission or Board
Confusion continues - Mission created under MoA
but Implemented by Forest dept !!!

8. MoEFCC, High level committee, 2014
4th Recommendation
Plantation of approved species on private lands
could be considered for compensatory afforestration
with facility for ‘treeland’ trading. (Para 5.7).
3rd Recommendation
“To offer economic incentives for increased
community participation in farm and social
forestry by way of promoting and proving
statutory safeguards to ‘treelands’ as distinct
from ‘forest’. (Para 5.6)

9. We Thank, Our Hon’ble PM Shri Modiji
for having taken it again now, for reconsideration
• Recommended many reforms, to improve
environment and pollution control
• Suggested, IES, Indian Envirn Service
• Clear approach - issue & recommendations
Insisted for a differentiation between “Forest” and
private tree growing lands “Treelands”, needed
Sad, report was rejected
MoEFCC, High level committee … contd

10. Definitions are important
To do international trade legally
• UN FAO has formed an Expert committee
– To define “Forest”, “Better late than never”
• Represented the issues to them, need for
distinguishing Forest trees and Farm trees
– Acknowledged & said under consideration
• Note: FSI, Forest Survey Institute says they
do not have definition of Forest, for an RTI
Many words. Needs Standardization
Agroforestry / Trees outside Forest / Farm Forestry

11. NITI Aayog’s
one of Agri Reform 2016
“All tree species grown in farmers private
land shall be free from felling and transit
regulation”.
• Good. Simplified all
• But who will ensure this?
– MoEFCC / Min of Agri & Farmer’s Welfare?
We request to add
“… free from felling, transit and sell / export
regulations”

12. NBA’s Expert Committee 2017
Recommended
“Red Sanders wood from farmers cultivated
source shall be allowed to export and have
separate policies ”
When non-replenishable , Forest damaging
Iron Ore is allowed to export,
Why-not re-growing woods of Farmers?
Red sanders is unique dry land tree of India,
demanded globally, restricted for export by a sheer
lapse in understanding in the criteria of IUCN’s
Endangered species by MoEFCC

13. Red Sanders, a case study, farmers field
Soil
Red Gravel & Fallow
Dry and Sloppy
20-45 deg C
750 mm Rain
30-60 % humidity
Mango & Tamarind
failed
RS Grow well

14. Red sanders,
case study contd.
In 12 Years
It has grown well
in the rocky land
High WUE
(Water Use Efficiency)
No irrigation
Only Rain
No Fertilizer / Pesticide
With Sheep &
All Wild animals

15. GOI - confusion, a case study
• National Medicinal Development Board,
Ministry of AYUSH, gives subsidy to grow
Red sanders, Sandal etc, on paper !
• MoEFCC has procedure flow chart for export
of Red Sanders, on web !
• TN gives permission to fell & sell, NOT AP
• Biodiversity board charges 5% , to export !
• But DGFT EXIM Policy doesn’t allow to
export ? NO market in Tamilnadu
Forcing Smuggling & Black Money

16. Old Colonial Forest laws / Isolated depts
Discourages Tree growing
Farmers continue water consuming crops
Ground water level goes 1000 ft below
Soil moisture dries up, Desertification
Then, we starve for
Cool Climate, Clean Air & Drinking Water
and continue to say
“Grow Trees .. Grow Trees”
But Who will?
So,

17. Wood is becoming a big Commodity
• Today, 30% cost of house is wood / furniture.
• Industry could have been big
• No supply from Forest & Treelands also
• So, big industries did NOT come up
IIPM, Indian Institute of Plantation Management,
under MoC, shall study this
In 2016, Expo, Bangalore
(Plantation / Machinery / Products Companies)
Meager from India, Rest all from across the World

18. Other benefit…Wooden Handicrafts
• Handicrafts come’s under Min. of Textiles
• They are struggling for legal wood supply
• Permission for selected species in some states
curtail some woods and related handicraft
items, loosing diversity & variety
• Many tree species are becoming neglected
– ex Albezia lebbeck, fast growing dry land tree.
Rules discourages Biodiversity
NITI Aayog Agri reform- “All tree species of farmers
should be free from any restrictions” – V. Good

19. Difference in State Laws
• Karnataka and Maharastra have revised laws
for Sandal. Population increased. Success !!
• TN Sandal rule 2008 is not facilitating
– Time of felling and price are decided by Forest
dept, biggest hurdle.
– Now, even though TN govt provides Sandal
sapling to farmers, they hesitate.
• Karnataka allows farmers to sell directly to the
companies, reduces time delay & …
Such successful laws can be replicated, in a year

20. Not Adopting
• Water consuming Coconut, continue to have
development board for 50 years, whereas less
water using trees yet to.
• Polluting industries, ex Dying, are facilitated,
whereas pollution cleaning trees are not yet.
• Govt just continues to spent for Afforestration
Green India, Climate change, loan waiver etc..
Without restructuring for present needs & challenges
Tax Reform(GST), Demonetization….
Restructuring , also, required for Tree
growing

21. So, creation of
Timber Development Board of India,
TDBI
Will remove all such lapses,
facilitate tree growing
SINGLE WINDOW SYSTEM
Next is, TDBI should be under ?
Min of Agri & Farmers welfare (MoAFW) , or
Min of Envirn, Forest and Climate Change ( MoEFCC),
Or A Separate Ministry

22. Need to Review our Mindset
• When we say TREE, All think Forest Why?
• From agrarian age, timber needs were met from
forest.
• 18th Century, British created Forest dept, to
manage forest for timber needs, of Brittan also
• 1990s Amla was NTFP- Non timber Forest
Produce, now Horticulture.
TNAU –FC&RI was also named as Forest college?
Trees need not be related to Forest, Anymore !!
Shall be part of agriculture, Treeculture

23. Forest Policy 1986 Changed
…..but not the org setup
“Forest for Conservation not for Production“,
means
– Forest is not meant for Production of wood
– Forest needs to be conserved
– NO MORE wood from forest for Industries etc
– Wood needs to be met from Farmer’s land
And
IFS /MoEFCC mandate is “Protection of Forest”
neither Production of wood to meet the demand
nor Farmer’s Welfare – refer IFS syllabus also

24. To facilitate Tree growing in
“Treelands” of the Farmers,
which is part of Farmer’s Welfare, also
TDBI, Timber Development Board of India
Should be Under
Min of Agriculture & Farmer’s Welfare
Or a Separate one
… simple logic, many more follows
So, It is clear

25. • Why MoEFCC / Forest dept could not do it?
• Who interacts / visits farmers frequently?
• Who has details of lands? And match the tree
– Irrigated, well / bore-wells & it’s depth
– Dry lands – Rain qty / it’s pattern
– Soil types / depth / moisture
• Who has comparative economic study? ….
Root Cause Analysis
Past record. Proofs. Proven models

26. MoEFCC tried with
• GIM, Green India Mission
• National Afforestration and Eco-devp Board
• IWDB 1985, now with MoRD
• Combat Desertification department
• Extion centers / ICFRE institutes across India
• Climate Change, CC, division
2015 Paris’s CC Meet our PM committed - 2.5 BN MT
of Carbon sink with addt’l Tree cover by 2030
But, MoEFCC yet to identify tree species and area
Ref: RTI MOENF/R/2016/20235, No Reply

27. MoEFCC could not
• Afforestration / Tree growing was domain of
Forest dept, could not increase tree cover
• It could not facilitate tree growing in Farmer’s
land also & ensure income from it
– How much area - successfully grown trees?
– How many farmers benefited by tree growing?
– How many species ? Varieties?
• India was wood Exporter ! Now Importer
MoEFCC could not increase 24% Green cover
to the goal of 33%, for last 5 decades !!

28. Because.. MoEFCC has wide responsibility
• Forest / Wildlife conservation is their FOCUS
• Ocean is also part of their concern
• Environmental clearance, monitoring, etc
– A complex responsibility in growing economy with
Nuclear / Petrochemical / Mega metros
– Which they are not familiar / taught
• Pollution control with growing industries
• Conservation of rich Biodiversity of India
– 10% species are under threat
• Environmental Mgmt for growing Infra projects

29. Forest dept focus is Forest
…. Not farm lands
• Improve density & wilderness of forest
• Converting mono-culture / exotic species
• No-go areas
• Reduce pollution due to mines / resorts etc
• Birds/Bees population, study & Improvement
• Conserving / safe guarding wild animals
• NTFP, Non-Timber Forest Produce
So, facilitating Treeculture gets LESS attention

30. No Demand Vs Supply - Mapping
• What is wood demand? Today- Another 50yrs
– Takes decades to grow and get it
• Which wood is imported? for what purpose?
• Available tree species, mapped suitable area.
• Farmers constraints & preferences.
Agriculture dept has cultivated area, demand for
each crops, every year, across all states
But forest dept do have such system
And They never ever attempted to know population
for any tree species in farmer’s land, in Forest also!

31. Forest dept do not know economics
• ICFRE and Forest extn dept are isolated
• To convince farmer for tree growing, trees
income should be compared with other crops
• I found Teak is 3 times profitable than
Coconut, with less water/ care, in suitable land
Approx calculation is in the next slide
Farmers are interested, Pl remove it from scheduled list
Case study: In NH compensation for trees, Agri
depts calculates reasonably with future economics,
but Forest dept calculates on weight basis.
Farmers are paid very low. Is it fair?

32. Coconut vs Teak, benchmark
COCONUT TEAK
Years Income Exp Net Income Exp Net
1 0 -25000 -25000 0 -25000 -25000
6 15000 -10000 -75115 0 -5000 -75822.8
7 20000 -10000 -74128.8 100000 -5000 10078.49
13 55000 -10000 80415.57 0 -5000 -20682.8
14 60000 -10000 140065.4 150000 -5000 121835.3
15 60000 -10000 206873.3 0 -5000 131455.5
23 60000 -10000 1127195 0 -5000 263980.5
24 60000 -10000 1312459 0 -5000 290658.2
25 60000 -10000 1519954 40,00,000.00 -5000 4320537

33. Forest & Agriculture are Different
Forest
• Trees grow with wild shrubs
and wild animals
• No culture, wild
• Healthy soil.
• High moisture in Soil / Air
• No chemical / Pesticide
• Cool wind / air temp
Agriculture
• Trees needs to integrated
with other crops
• Mono-culture
• Degraded soil
• Low moisture in Soil /Air
• Fertilizer / Pesticide
• Hot wind / air temp
http://www.rainforestconservation.org/rainforest-
primer/7-special-topics/b-agriculture/4-differences-
between-agricultural-and-forest-land/

34. Forest soil vs Farm soil
• Forest soil is HEALTHY, due to humus of wild
shrubs & it’s humus, wild animals &
droppings - enhanced the soil
• Farm soil is degraded, due to over
cultivation, compaction (Tractors), no humus
addition, no natural manure, excess chemical
fertilizer and pesticide.
Both are totally different.
Need research on
“Trees growth with various crops and animals
combination” – who ? Agri Univ.s or ICFRE

35. Moisture level in Soil & Air
• Quantum of rain, frequency of rain, water
holding capacity of forest soil is totally diff
• Air moisture, temp are also different
• Whereas, in FARM land, no such benefit
NOT seen a single Teak tree equivalent to
Neelambur-Kerala forest in farm land
But those gene saplings were given to TN farmers
Need to identify Plus trees in respective province
ICFRE study of trees in forest environment
did not suit rightly for farm lands

36. Borewell effect on Tree growing
• Nowadays, bore-well depth crossed 1000 ft
– All farmers prefer Coconut - fully facilitated
– Free EB & Coconut combination sucks gr water
• Top Soil getting dried
• Less moisture and low humus leads to soil
degradation, even grass dried
Desertification / Drinking Water Scarcity
Tiruppur / Palladam - TN becoming DESERT.
MoAFW shall also have a Desertification dept

37. Symbiotic, a complex concept
• Our Sandal / Red Sanders grows along with
other crops / Trees
• Exotic Eucalyptus does not allow anything to
grow under it
– No Grass, hence no sheep grazing
• It is complex, many combination of trees and
crops. Permutation & combination
Albizia lebbek, is a NFT –Nitrogen Fixing Tree
may help other crops with Nitrogen
TNAU’s - FC & RI conducts such study.

38. Horticulture and Timber
• Our Moringa Olifera, can be grown with Teak
or Pterocarpus Marsupium.. etc
• Both are not water consuming
• Moringa gives income in initial years
• It is MPT, Multi-Purpose Tree
– used as leaf, vegetable, fodder
– Dried leaf Exported, So, constant market
• Custard apple is, with P.Marsupium ?
Agriculture dept shall study such combination and
publish in the website, easy to update / access

39. Water Use Efficiency (WUE)
“More Crop per Drop” – in PM words
• Sugar requires 2500 litres of water / kg
• Rice requires 4000 litres of water / kg
• How much is required for a kg of Teak?
• Water starving India needs to plan crops /
trees based on water availability
• Similarly Water Use Income, the final goal
These kind of studies is not done by MoEFCC.
Better agriculture do that in agriculture lands and
compared with other crops

40. Agri Dry lands, a big potential
• 60 % agri lands in India are DRY
• Most of irrigated lands starving for water
– Becoming dry
• What are the options?
– Industries / Solar to some percentage
– Tree growing will suit all areas
• Is tree growing profitable in dry lands?
– YES, some are better than Coconut
Biodiversity Rich India, has highly valuable and
unique dry land tree species.
And, demanded world wide, for GOOD CAUSE.

41. Agriculture impossible
but.. Treeculture is !!
My land, in 2005, Rocky, Dry, Red Soil & Sloppy
No crop was possible, even Tamarind of Forest
dept did not give fruit .

42. but Red Sanders Tree is growing well
Without water !
Many Times Profitable than Coconut
It grew well with sheep grazing alone, 2013
Trying to simulate the NATURE

43. but.. GOI restricts Red Sanders wood Export
• IUCN 1998 classified as Endangered, wrongly
• MoEFCC should submit population details to
update it’s classification, as per their format
– Not submitted till now, 19 years of lapse
• CITES restricts export from wild being
endangered
But MoEFCC restricts from cultivated source also
Full details of this Potential Tree
https://www.slideshare.net/GanesanRP/red-sanders-
action-required-by-goi-v3

44. IWDP ?
• IWDP, Integrated Waste Land Dev Program
– Under Dept of Land Resource /Min of Rural Dev
• Earlier, NWDB 1985, under MoEFCC
– National Wasteland Dev Board, fodder / fuel wood
– Could not achieve the objective, so transferred
Whereas, my 40000 trees are growing well in
degraded lands - was sloppy, over cultivated for
decades – Soil eroded.
I first did RWH, Rain Water Harvesting, then Tree
RWH designed to retain100%of 100mmRainin2hrs.
Rs 4 lakhs spent ! No Subsidy !!
Can Direct Transfer – After Verification !!

45. MoEFCC is Too Big
• I have represented Red Sanders issues many
times for past 2 years, to MoEFCC
• Every time, its gets forwarded to diff divs
– FPD, Forest Protection Div, they close it
– FPD, Forest Policy Div, they forward to PCCF
– SU, Survey & Utility div, R & E …
– CITES MA, is ADF-WL / CITES SA is BSI
Thanking NBA, responded rightly
my grievances thro pgportal.gov.in
MOEAF/E/2017/01286, Even PMOPG/E/2017/0450399
FPD said “it does not pertains to them”. many more

46. Endangered, not understood
• IUCN is an Int’l org, list endangered species
– very clearly provides, objective methods to classify
Endangered, Extinct ….
• Revival of endangered animal is difficult.
– Requires suitable habitat, Tiger conservation
– But revival of endangered Tree is easy
• No such habitat needs
CIRCA- SITUM, growing trees in farm lands proved
to help conservation, reduces theft from forest.
so, Tree will not become Endangered
Only bad policy will !!

47. MoEFCC treats Forest & Farm trees in
same manner - Restrictive
• CITES : An Int’l org, restricts export of endangered
species from WILD, to conserve it
• But Allows / Encourages from cultivated lands, to
meet the needs and reduce the damage to wild forest
– With a NDF study
– MoEFCC conducts it rarely, without objective
• And, MoEFCC did not differentiate & suggest
DGFT for a separate policy for Farmer’s RS wood
But Malaysia Timber Industry Board, ensures no
such lapses and facilitates export of Endangered
species from cultivated source in larger quantity

48. Sandal
• BEST Tree for our dry land, Grows by itself,
– Birds spreads seed, grows along with A. lebbek etc
– without water, fertilizer, NOTHING
• But forest law made farmers to plug out
Even today, in Kgi dt / TN farmers plug out
birds spread Sandal under Mango trees.
An unique potential is simply lost
Now, Indian Sandal wood grown in Australia,
by Indian farmers also , is sold in India !!!
Few TN farmers supplied sandal to forest dept, as
per TN Farm land Sandal act 2008, but not paid till.

49. Tamarind of Forest dept, my experience
• 1989, forest dept supplied root coiled sapling
• Took 10 years to grow in dry lands
• No fruit, waited for another 5 years, felled
• Understood that Tamarind is not fit for mono-
crop plantation, only for line/roadside
• Now Red Sanders plantation growing well
Not of forest dept !!
Is Tamarind a forest tree?
Should it not be in agri?

50. Simarouba Glauca of Forest dept
• Promoted in 2005s, An exotic species
• Breaks by our wind,
• Till now ZERO income.
• How many farmers benefited out of this?
Our, Madhuca longifolia, would have been better.
Thanking Dr. ERR Sadasivam
Improvement comes from study of
Failure.
Study such failures, update in website, to avoid
failures, next time. Ex Air-crash Investigation

51. Silver oak of Forest dept
• 2010s Forest had supplied Silver Oak saplings
to farmers in hot climatic & plain region
• After 3-4 years, farmers came to know, it is
not growing.
– It is a hill Tree, >800 mm MSL
• Who is looser? Will farmers believe next
time? Farmers income deprived, Compensation?
Pterocarpus Marsupium would have suited for such
dry alluvial soil, in hot climate.
Good, they are supplying this tree, now -2017

52. Teak- India’s Tree,..now India Imports!!
• Native of Asia, Drought tolerant /All want it.
• Max planted Tree in the world
“World adopted our Tree…
..we adopted in Scheduled Timber List”
Indian Farmer’s Plight, a case study
An acre farmer cut his own Teak tree, sawed and
brought for his small house, in the night,
as though he is a thief.
No other profession will experience such state !!

53. Rosewood, India’s Pride, but
• Proud, being dinning table Top in
Buckingham Palace, United Kingdom.
• TN not allowing to fell, in farmer’s land also
– Rule extended for every 15 years.
– Any benefit / increase in population ????
• Takes 75 yrs to grow, what will be policy?
• Also in scheduled timber list - purpose?
• Is govt planting it to conserve? Not much
No cutting permission, But
Forest extn gives Rosewood sapling to Farmers!!!

54. So, Forest dept made our trees
Endangered
• Dry land trees :Sandal, Red sanders …
• Fertile land tree: Rosewood, T.Arjuna…
• Hilly region trees: Agar …
• Many more like Ebony….. etc
Whereas, MoAFW made a tree Popular
One policy made NEEM useful
Policy : Fertilizer should be coated with NEEM
In 2017, Farmers started PLANTING NEEM !!!
Neem wood demanded in Europe. Facilitate Please

55. Protect Forest 100%
• CCTV at forest check-post
– No permanent check post on NH !
• For Farm woods
– GPS / Cloud based apps, like TNPL / TN
– Geo-tagged photos / VRIKSH by EPCH
Forest guards, guard weigh bridge instead of
forest and harass farmers, who transport even
Neem / Mango / Palm woods.
LoCONES of CCMB Hyderabad can map source
with Cellular /Molecular technology, if essential

56. Some developments, but not enough
• TN relaxed 36 species from Timber Transit
regulation. Good
• But better to adopt NITI Aayog reform “All
species of farm land shall be relaxed”
• Karnataka / Maharastra allowed Sandal to be
sold directly by farmers to companies. GOOD
– Population has touched 17000 hectares
– IWST gives training to farmers - GOOD
TN budgeted 100 crores for Sandal Promotion.
Progress? Right Policy First. Budget Next…

57. MoAFW launched, SMAF, Sub-Mission of
AgroForestry. It distributed fund for 2016-17.
But implemented by Forest dept in TN !!!
Request, in-future, Review & Route it through
“FC & RI of TN Agri Univ ”
Some developments, but….
NBA RS Ex Committee had recommended,
to remove restriction for farmland RS wood.
But DGFT says they have not received.
SU-MoEFCCsays, awaiting for report from AP
ADGF-WL says, BSI -K has to submit NDF…

58. NMSA
National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture
It is based on UN-SDG, Sustainable Dev Goals
8th Point
A consortium …..stack holders including …. like State
Agri Univ (SAUs), KVKs, ICAR Centres, … provide
single window service …
for the benefit of farming community.
1st Point, itself
Promoting integrated farming system covering crops,
livestock & fishery, plantation…..

59. NMSA … insists
• Soil health, water holding capacity
• Drought and flood resilience
• Water use efficiency, minimizing risk..
• GIS, location specific soil, crop mgmt ..
• Include it in national climate change plan..
• NFSM, MIDH, IWMP, RKVY, ICAR.. Integration
Did not mention MoEFCC,
……has to focus on Forest / whole environment
ICAR / KVKs shall be a Single Window System for
Treeculture & Permissions, also

60. A successful model -Malaysia
Malaysia Exports Wood, India Imports
Because Malaysia has got
Malaysia Timber Industry Board
under
Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities
Even, many endangered species woods are exported,
in large quantities.
Refer CITES Website - Export Quota / Org structure
http://www.mtib.gov.my/
we have Indian Institute of Plantation Management,
(IIPM) Bengaluru under MoC, little known

61. Proven Models, under MoAFW
• Coconut Development Board
– Varieties, drip irrigation, value added products.
– Almost everywhere now / even in dry lands
– Waste Pith also Exported now
• Spices Develop’t board, exports at good price
• Tea Develop’t board, over produced
• Sugar development, over produced
• Horticulture / Floriculture … many more
Proved, MoEFCC for Protection
MoA is for Development

62. So, creation of
TIMBER DEVELOPMENT BOARD of India
Should be under
Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer’s
Welfare
Or a separate one, as in Malaysia
Simplified Target
Bring 10% Tree Cover in Farmer’s Land
With Trees to meet
Wood demand also, at least by 2040 !!
And 75% of Paris CC IND Commitment by 2030.

63. Lands for Treeculture, HUGE
• Good Soil but less water, ex. Thanjavur delta
• Coconut/Sugar areas with 1000 ft borewell
• Unviable Dry lands / Labour shortage areas
• Absent landlord’s lands– Growing
– Due to youth getting into Jobs
• Big landlord’s part of their land for Trees
Target 20% farm lands for Trees
ie., 20% of 60% is 12 %, Tree cover will become 33%
Forest Policy Environmental Policy Achieved !!!

64. TDBI will reduce water scarcity
• 84% Water used for irrigation, 4% for
drinking, 14% for industry
• Major irrigated crops are Sugar, Coconut..
• Farmers continue this due to harassing forest
procedures for tree growing
• TDBI facilitation of less /no water consuming
Treeculture will reduce water usage
Farmers may/can not fully depend on Cauvery
Drinking water need of Mysore, Blr, Salem, Hosur,
Vellore, Erode, Tiruppur, Trichy... increasing

65. • Farmers grow
– Coconut : assured income, but water consuming
– Mango trees : Farmers with has less water
• 2016 acute drought, many farmers wanted to
grow less water-using Timber trees
– Inspired by my trees growth, without water
• Saw my struggle for a policy correction
Continued deepening the Bore-well. Truely
Bore well crossing 1000 ft deep ?
so Indirectly, Forest dept is responsible
for Water Scarcity.

66. Impact Assessments for Trees?
• What is Environmental / Health / Social /
Economic impacts - by Trees
Coconut makes drinking water shortage (summer)
Red sanders is drought resilient (less suicide)
Teak has assured market (Income assured)
1000 ft borewell for crops -Desertification
Rosewood is a Social Pride
Indian Sandal will make the world SMELL GOOD!!
Represented this –MoEAF/E/2017/01103
NAEB responded as “will consider in future”. Good

67. Policy Study – “Think Tanks”
• NITI Aayog – Headed by Reforming PM
• Centre for Policy Research
– Present NITI Aayog Chairman’s prev. org
• MES –Madras School of Economics /Chennai
– Centre of Excellence, in Environmental Economics
• TERI - Social benefits
• IIPM, Blr – export potential
Be Happy & More Hopeful
Our PM has appointed some “Think Tanks” for
some studies related to this / environmental …

68. PES will reduce Farmer’s Suicide
• PES, Payment for environmental benefits
– Trees provide lot of Environ benefits, quantified
• The Hon’ble SC says, “Polluter pay”
– To whom, should reach the cleaner ?
– Cleaner, Tree grower is not getting it, deprived
• In US Paddy farmers also gets Carbon credits.
• Rs 39000 crores lies with CAMPA a/c
No exp for GOI like Fertilizer / EB in Tree growing
Link Aadhar, to avoid Multiple subsidy

69. Pay Rs 5000 /acre /year for long term (>15 yrs)
Timbers trees, After 6 ft growth , to ensure
Actually, it is their due, Payment for
Environmental Service (PES), NOT Free
It also shall be accounted for
Compensatory Afforestration.
Ref: High Level Committee Report
It will be cheaper than tree growing thro’ Forest
Include all cost- sapling raising, all overheads
Our PM’s best scheme -Direct Transfer

70. Changing Job Scenario
• IT professionals are attracted towards Green
• Many IT professionals are investing
– in Organic / Treeculture / Integrated farming.
– Many are contacting me for guidance
• They value add /sell through e-commerce.
Knowledge based Organic Integrated Farming
with simple living is the best way
to combat Climate Change /create Healthy
world
They will act as pioneer-spots, others will follow

71. “Farmers can, Grow Any tree, Fell Anytime,
Transport to any market, Sell / Export
legally”, as he can.
Grow Any tree : will improve the biodiversity
Fell Anytime : Farmer may fell for various reasons,
Transport to any market : Different species for
different markets across India / world
Sell /Export to any market: Will spurt tree growing
Timber Development Board of India
shall ensure One India, One Policy

72. • Remove all Policy hurdles across India
• Estimate Timber Demand Vs Supply, for 50 yrs
• Map: Native Tree Species with Suitable areas
• Online Database of Trees: To choose, based on
soil, water, temp and economics
• More Research coordinated & transferred to
industries / farmers for Value addition….
….every part tree shall be made useful
Timber Development Board of India
shall

73. Timber Development Board (TDB), shall
• Website : cultivation tech with video
– Suitable soil - Related water requirement
– Water Use Income or Productivity details.
– Economics based on today / future probability
• Online Permission:
– On line application with SF nos
– Geo-tagged photos / GPS transport
– KVK permits or private, like tax auditors
….and many more as issue comes up
Timber Development Board of India
shall

74. • Wood demand & Import increasing
alarmingly -Takes yrs to get matured wood
• To achieve 33% Green cover, long over due
– Forest area is coming down!! Mining / Infra
• Paris CC Commitment by 2030
– Trees need to be planted at least before 2022
Note: Exporting countries Started Restriction
Timber Development Board of India
Required Urgently

75. India is starving for
Clean Water, Air & Good Environment.
Trees will Clean !
Very Easy to Grow in India!
Bureaucrats need to Restructure to Facilitate
Let us not blame Politicians alone
In-fact, now they are active with reforms
Corruption is Percentage Loss
Bad Policy is Total Loss

76. Represented to GOI, as Grievances
One is, PMOPG/E/2016/0374803 - Oct 2016
PMO forwarded to NITI Aayog
Understand Restructuring will take time
Cabinet Secretariat Responded Well
I am Happy and Thankful to
Our PM Heading DARPG,
Giving Importance to Grievances
www.pgportal.govi.in

77. Thanking Cabinet Secretariat

78. With a Hope on Reforming PM
Thanking you all
Ganesan RP
Brahmavanam
H 96, New ASTC Hudco
Hosur - 635109
Tamilnadu, India
ganesanrp@gmail.com
This representation, is to ensure the
Same
Regret for any dissent / if lengthy