A ppt on joint forest management prepared for academic seminar. Will be helpful for students from science stream.

1. JOINT FOREST MANAGEMENT
ACADEMIC SEMINAR 2021-22
NAME- PRATIT KUMAR TRIPATHY
ROLL.NO.- BS(B)19-360

2. CONTENTS
● Introduction to JFM
● History
● Functioning of JFM
● Key features of JFM
● Current status of JFM
● Strategic shift
● Bonphool – A case study
● Conclusion

3. INTRODUCTION
● Joint Forest Management is the official
and popular term in India for
partnerships in forest movement
involving both the forest department
and local communities.
● Indian National Forest Policy of 1988
and the Joint Forest Management
Guidelines of 1990 of the Government
of India .
● Committee known as the Forest
Protection Committee (FPC) and the
Forest Department enter into a JFM
agreement. Villagers agree to assist in
the safeguarding of forest resources
through protection from fire, grazing,
and illegal harvesting in exchange they
receive non-timber forest products and
a share of the revenue from the sale of
timber products.

4. HISTORY
● Joint Forest Management originated in West Bengal(Arabari) in 1980's. The
major hardwood of Arabari is sal (Shorea robusta).
● Ajit Kumar Banerjee, a silviculturist, working for the Forest Department as the
Divisional Forest Officer, was conducting trials which were constantly being
disturbed by grazing and illegal harvesting by the local people.
● (At that time)Local people = thieves of forest
● 11 local villages were involved to form a Forest Protection Committee.
--612 families managing 12.7 sq. kms. of forests classified as
“degraded".
-- 25% of profits from the forests were shared with the villagers. The
experiment was successful and was expanded to other parts of the state in
1987. JFM is still in force at Arabari.
● A few years later, Joint Forest Management was employed in the state
of Haryana to prevent soil erosion and deforestation. Villagers were persuaded
that instead of grazing on erosion-prone hills, building small dams would help
agricultural output on areas currently under cultivation. The program led to
reforestation of many hills in the state.
● However, officially the state of Odisha remains the first to pass the resolutions
for JFM i.e. on 1993.

6. JFM FUNCTIONING
1.Community formation and
responsibility transfer.
2.Democratic methods of
decision making
3.Proper training program
4. Periodic monitoring and
checking
5. Ensuring equal revenue
distribution

7. KEY FEATURES OF JFM
● The criteria of land to be bought under JFM are
mostly degraded forests. (Except M.P)
● Economic and social upliftment of forest dwelling
communities.
● 50% of members in the Forest protection committee
and 33% in the working community should be
women.

8. CURRENT STATUS OF JFM
 The JFM program is implemented currently by Joint Forest 1,18,213
Management Committees (JFMC) and it covers 22 million ha of forests
spread across 28 states and union territories.
 As per India State of Forest Report (ISFR), 2019 : Total Forest cover -
21.67% and Tree cover - 2.89% of the geographical area of India.
 As compared to 2017 there is an increase of 0.56% of
forest cover and 1.29% of tree cover.
 Forest Cover (Area-wise): Madhya Pradesh> Arunachal
Pradesh> Chhattisgarh> Odisha> Maharashtra.

9. STRATEGIC SHIFT
FROM TO
Centralized management Decentralized
Revenue orientation People orientaion
Large working plan Micro plan
Target orientation Process orientaion
Unilateral decision making Participatory decision
Controlling people Facilitating people
Department Peoples institute
Fixed procedure Experimental and flexibility

10. BONPHOOL - A CASE STUDY
BEFORE AFTER
 Source – sundarbansjfmc.org

11. CONCLUSION
 Employment opportunities have increased significantly since the
establishment of FPCs.
It is a cheap means of obtaining artificial regeneration of forest lands.
 Successfully creating a connecting bridge between forest community
and the mainstream world.
Reduction in stress migration of villagers.

12. REFFERENCES
1. www.sciencedirect.com
2. www.epw.in
3. www.downtoearth.org
4. www.google.com
5. www.wikipedia.org
6. www.fao.org
7. www.brainly.com
8. www.sundarbansjfmc.org