Major activities of forestry extension centres

Tamil Nadu's forestry extension centres run a defined set of activities to spread tree-growing outside formal forest land: training farmers and villagers in tree-growing methods; publicity and outreach campaigns encouraging tree planting; setting up demonstration plots that show successful techniques in practice; raising and supplying tree seedlings on subsidy to lower the cost barrier for planting; and running awareness programmes, training sessions and camps specifically aimed at school children and youth, to build a longer-term culture of forest stewardship. Together these activities operationalise the social-forestry …