Key Facts about Social Forestry
Social forestry may be defined as the science and art of growing trees in and outside traditional forest areas and managing like existing forest with intimate involvement of the people and more or less integrated with other operation resulting in balanced and complementary land used with view to provide wide range of goods and services to the individual as well as to the society.
Key Facts about Social Forestry
It is also called as Community Forestry.
- The term Social forestry was first used by a forest scientist named Westoby in 1976. Social forestry is the greatest instrument of land ....
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