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The Indian Forester April 1948

1948

This reminds us of experience in district work of frost hollows appearing in clear-felled areas much to the chagrin of the divisional forest officer charged with the regeneration of the areas and only further alarmed by notes by successive high inspecting officers pointing out the bogey of the sea of tall grass. [...] The respective responsibilities of the Indian parliament and the state legislatures are analysed in respect of land-use legislation quoting the position in the U. S. A.; as soil coservation is a matter of national interest the reponsibility of the Indian parliament is very clear under the draft constitution of India 1948. [...] While the forest lands under the control of the forest departments are being carefully coserved by technically trained men of the forest departments in the different provinces and the agricultural lands are being looked after by the agriculturists themselves with the advice of the agricultural department there is no authority to think about and to take charge of these sumarginal lands whic [...] The Congress of the United States of America in an Act approved in April 1935 directed the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a Soil Conservation Service in the Department of Agrculture to conduct a comprehensive national programme of control of soil erosion. [...] Add to this the cognate factors of the cutting off of the monsoon blast in summer and its corresponding conversion into plentiful fall of snow in winter (due to this elevated barrage presented by the Pir Panjal) and we have the last items in the chain of circumstances so peculiar to this part of the country.
agriculture environment
Pages
66
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120200
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v Jagdamba Prasad view
Editorial
137-138 Jagdamba Prasad view
Grazing Problems in the Sub-Marginal Lands
138-145 J. Banerji view
The Fifth British Empire Forestry Conference 1947
146-146 S.N. Kesarcodi view
Regeneration of the Fir Forests of Pir Pannal Kashmir
147-152 Sher Singh view
The Flora of the Karewa Series of Kashmir and its Phytogeographical Affinities with Chapters on the Method Used in Identification (Continued)
152-164 G.S.. Puri view
Eupatorium Odoratum Linn. as a Fish Poison
164-164 M.V. Edwards view
Food Fodder Wood: Dry Gum Wet Farming Series
165-i C.B. Gehlot view
Katha Manufacture in Bhatkal and Coondapur Ranges
173-173 M.A. Gokran view
Rainfall Record
174-175 K.L. Lahiri view
Results of the Editorial Browse
175-176 Jagdamba Prasad view
Extracts
176-183 Jagdamba Prasad view
Gazette Notification
183-185 Jagdamba Prasad view

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