FOREST DEPARTMENT 1981-82FOREST DEPARTMENT ANNUAL REPORT 1981-82INDEX Chapier Page No° 1. Introduction os ne mn 1 2. Working of the Department we 1 7 3. Development Schemes implemented during 2 19 1981-82 (General Wing). 4, Activities of the Development Wing... 3 27 5. Other important information on the depart- 4 40 ment. 6. Karnataka State Forest industries Corpo- 5 46 ration Ltd. 7. Karnataka State Forest Plantation 6 bl Corporation Ltd. 8. Karnataka Cashew Development Corpora- 7 53 tion Ltd. TABLES: 1. Land utilisation pattern wit 1 2. Forest types, areas and estimated growing stook ... 2 3. Circle and divisionwise forest area 2 4. Districtwise forest area in Karnataka State 6 5. District wise forest area by legal status 6 6. Production of timber 8 7. Allot ment of Matchwood and Piywoue st 9 8. Allotment of Eucalyptus wood o nat 10 9. Firewood supply aay we 18 10. Location of Bamboo Depots sit te 14 11. Allotment of Grass to industries 0 wes 16 12. Supply of wooden sleepers ae wit WT ‘13. Supply of Timber (o public Sectors" ... su WW 14. Details of plantations raised 19 15. Plan allocation and expenditure 6 16. Area under National Parks/Sanctuaries etc 29Chapter Page No. 17. Physical and Financial achievements under Social 35 Forestry. 18, Allotment and expenditure under Plan Scheme 37 Development Wing) 19. Progress of working plan organisation be 39 20. Loss of Forest Areas are 40 21. Revenue and expenditure of the Depareinsay we 41 22. Per hectare Revenue and Expenditure we 42 23. Compulsory planting provisions ae we 44 24. K.S.F.LC. financial results wi aaa 49 25. K.S.P.L.C. details of production wee ws 50 26. K.S.F.P.C. out-turn and Revenue... 8 52 27. K.S.F.P.C. progress of Projects... 7 4 28. Target and achievement under Plan Schemes... 5B 29. Tribal Sub-plan ws vs 62 30. Special component programme * wie 64 31. Forest Development Fund Progress Rapes ve 66 32 ahd 33. Progress under Drought’ Prone area Programme 70 &71 84. Progress under Integrated Development of Western 95 Ghat Region 35. Particulars of Government Waste lands @ VW 36. Details of Forest offence cases ee ee 81 37. Details of Plan proposals for 1982-83 se 83 38. Non-plan outlay for 1981-82 Be oe 90 39. Non-plan budget estimates for 1982-83 es oI 40, Organisational set-up of the Dipesiens wee 92 41. Staff position statement = 94 42. Physical and Financial target in respect tof Rica. 9 taka Forest Development Fund for 1982-83.KARNATAKA FOREST DEPARTMENT Annual Report 1981-82 Introduction The total forest area of the State is 38,384-06 Square Kms. as against the State geographical area of 1,91,791 Sq. Kms. The percentage of forest area to geographical area is 20.0 as against the all India average of about 23 per cent. The percentage prescribed in National Forest Policy is 33.33. Thus the percentage of Forest area in the State is less than the all India average and far less than the standard prescribed. The State is situated between 11°30’ and 19° latitudes and between 74° and 78° east longitudes. The altitude generally varies from sea level to 1,524 metres on the Western Ghats. The rainfall varies from 255 mm in the Eastern plains to over 8900 m.m. in the Western Ghats, indicating dense forest areas on the Western Ghat side of the State and sprinkled areas of forest in the Eastern plains of the State. The following table furnishes the land utilisa- tion pattern in the State. TABLE—I LAND UTILISATION PATTERN SL. Area in Percentage ‘to No. Particulars hectares the geogra- phical area 1. Land put to agriculture inelud- ing fallow lands ade 1,18,93,479 62.0 2. Forests : (1) Reserved Forest ve 28,410,047 14.8 (2) Other class of Forest... 9,938,359 5.2 Total Forest ve 38,33,406 200 (3) Other cultivable land and land not available for cultivation & 34,47,215 18.0 *Census 1981 (Provisional figures)2 The total forest area of 38,384.06 Sq. Kms. includes all classes of forests viz., Reserved, Protected, unclassed, village and Private forests. The increase in forest area over the previous year is due to incorporation of C and D class of lands taken over from the Revenue Department under unclassed forest . TABLE—2 Forest types area and estimated growing stock Forest Growing Percentage under Growing _ stock Sl. Type to the each type Stock per in each No total forest (000 Ha.) Ha. (m3) — type area (in million m3) 1 2 3 4 5 6 1. Evergreen and Semi evergreen vg BS 580 101.50 2. Moist Deciduous 15.06 578 57.80 3. Dry Deciduous .. 18.94 727 36.35, 4. Serub and thorny 21.31 818 20.45 5. Un-wooded 29.58 1,135 . Total -» 100.00 3.838 e 216.10 TABLE--3 Circle and Divisionwise Forest area during 1980-81 (Provisional) (Area in Sq. Kms.) Circle Division Area 7 1 2 3 T. BaNcaore 1. Bangalore a 793.05 . 2. Kolar % 1,039.41 3. Tumkur = 866.90 Total... 2,699.361 2 3 Il. Breneaum 4, Belgaum 1,723.02 5. Bagalkot 824.30 6. Dharwar 594.09 7. Gokak 505.63 8. Gadag 765.08 Total... 4,412.12 Tl. Be.iary 9. Bellary a 1,743.53 10. Bidar ails 482.31 11. Chitradurga 1,562.29 12. Gulbarga 1,187.85 13. Raichur 1,090.03 Total =... 6,016.01 IV, Kanara 14. Haliyal 1,441.70 15. Honnavar 1,408.99 16. Karwar 2,239.87 17. Sirsi 1,712.31 18. Yellapur 1,488.64 Total V. Kopacu 19. Coondapur 2,639.96 20. Hassan 541.07 21. Hunsur 651.39 22. Madikeri 858.16 23. Mangalore 2,405.77 Total oe 7,096.35 VI. Mysore 24. Chamarajanagar .. 560.44 25. Mandya 543.00 26. Mysore 710.65 27. Kollegal 1,916.70 Project Tigr 689.52 Total 4400 0%L 2 3 VII. Suimoea 28. Bhadravathi 1,069.71 29. Chickmagalur 752.38 30. Shimoga 1,031.40 31. Sagar 1,595.60 32. Koppa 999.31 Total 5,448.40 State Tora 38,384.065 TABLE—4 District-wise Forest area in Karnataka State 1980-81 (Area in Sq. Kms.) Percentage of forest area Sl. District Geographical Forest to Geographi- No. area area cal area 1 2 3 4 5 1, Bangalore 8,005 1,168.55 14.60 2, Belgaum 13,415 2,998.65 16.61 3. Bellary 9,885 1,748.53 17.64 4, Bidar 5,448 482.31 8.85 5. Bijapur 17,069 824.30 4.83 6. Chickmagalur 7,201 2,179.08 30.26 7. Chitradurga aoe 10,852 1,562.29 14.40 8. Dakshina Kannada 8,441 5,045.73 59.78 9. Dharwad 138,738 1,359.17 9.89 10, Gulbarga 16,224 1,137.85, 7.01 11, Hassan 6,814 541.07 7.94 12, Kodagu 4,102 1,234.12 30.09 13, Kolar . 8,223 1,039.41 12.64 14, Mandya ei 4,961 193.79 3.91 15, Mysore =e 11,954 4,126.45 34.52 16, Raichur oe 14,017 1,090.03 7.78 17, Shimoga ae 10,553 3,269.32 30.98 18. Tumkur we 10,598 866.90 8.18 19. Uttara Kannada 10,291 8,291.51 80.57 Srare ToraL «. 191,791 38,384.06 20.00 Note :-— (1) Forest area figures are provisional and subject to revision (2) The total forest area is inclusive of C & D class of lands taken over from Revenue Department,TABLE—5 District-wise forest area by legal Status——1980-81 (Area in Sq. Kms). S.No. District Reserved Protected ~ Un-classed Village Private Total 1. Bangalore .. 1,124.50 36.05 o 8.00 «1,168.55 2. Belgaum .. 2,067.42 11.78 36.02 . 123.43 2,228.65 3. Bellary . 1,236.21 . 477.59 29.73 1,743.53 4. Bidar : 63.35 90.89 328.07 o 7 482.31 5. Bijapur. 824.19 0.11 . . . $24.30 6. Chickmagalur 1,431.72 184.32 555.29 U7 + 2,179.08 7. Chitradurga 958.30 5.05 593.60 5.34 an 1,562.29 8. D. Kannada 2,080.56 1,587.97 1,288.59 ws 88.61 5,045.73 9. Dharwar. 1,115.13 14.04 172.04 ish 57.97 1,359.17 10. Gulbarga. 345.64 6.60 . 1,137.85 11. Hassan ; 448.71 5.41 . 541.07 12, Kodagu... _——1, 122.26 . «1,284.12 13. Kolar . 877.93 5.61 -. 1,089.41 14. Mandya... 187.19 193.79 15. Mysore ss 8,875.59 4,126.45 16. Raichur.. 251.74 as ws 1,090.03 17. Shimoga. 1,944.88 13.59 - B,269.32 18. Tumkur. 117.31 8.68 866.90 19. U Kannada 7,727.84 20.90 . 8,291.51 28,400.47 58,3847 CHAPTER I Working of the Department The main activities of the department are systematic exploitation of Forest wealth based on the Principal of progressive and sustained yield encouraging the natural regeneration, reforestation and afforestation measures and organising the unorganised forests, meeting the demands of forest based industries, conservation and protection of existing forests and also encouraging Social Forestry. The development schemes are both industrially oriented aimed at increasing the production potential of forest resources in the State and to meet the demands of rural population and economically weaker sections. The Forest Department has been located in its own building called “Aranya Bhavan” which was inaugurated by the President of India. On this occasion, the grafted variety of ber, obtained from Gujarath and taken up ex- tensively by the Forest Department for planting, was also released by the Governor of Karnataka. An event of considerable significance during the year was the national seminar on forests and environment, conducted by the forest department on 2nd and 3rd December 1981. The Seminar was participated by more than 170 delegates from all over the country and 67 Technical Papers were discussed. The recommendations of the Seminar will help to reorient the forestry policies in all the States of the Country. Production of Forest produce Timber Round timber of commercial importance, both hard and softwood species, are extracted and brought to Govern- ment timber depots and exposed for public auction besides being offered for selection to Railways, Defence, Ship build-8 ing, Industries, housing and for private uses. Timber is being sold periodically in 36 Government Timber Depots. In addition to this trees are also sold standing in coupes in public auction. However, gradually this system is being discontinued, the work of exploitation being taken up increasingly large proportion by the department. TABLE 6 The following table furnishes the production of timber during 1986-81, Sl. Produce Unit Quantity No. 1. Rosewood ..m3 (1) 12,395 2. Teakwood . do 73,114 3. Sawn timber . do 10,805 4. Other kinds of timber do 2,47,581 5. Pulp wood ar do 3,03,240 6. Matchwood ve do 15,700 7. Plywood os do 1,30,783 8. Timber in round poles do 1,04,201 9. Fire wood do 10,69,523 19,67,342 Matchwood and Plywood Softwood of commercial importance is being extracted by the industries to whom specific areas are leased in ever- green and. semi-evergreen forests of the State. There are in all 17 plywood factories, 2 Chip Board Factories, Six Matchwood Industries and 3 Matchwood Associations having 24 member factories on their rolls and 2 packing case manufacturing industries drawing softwood timber from the department regularly.TABLE 7 Approxi- Sl. Nature of the No.of Raw Quantity mate Qtty. No. ....Industry Industries material allotted removed during 1980-81 1. Plywood 7 17_ Plywood 1,07,116m3(r ) * 2, Matchwood 5) Matchwood 53,780 do | 3. Matchwood Asso- 3d | ciations with 24 | member factories. b 4. Chipboard ae 2 Plywood & 40,119 do | Matchwood 5. Packing case .. 2 Hardwood & 7,120 do| Softwood. J *These industries have removed 1,46,483 m3(r) of softwood during the year 1980-81. It is the desire of the Government to change over to departmental extraction. 50 per cent of the lops and tops of softwood extracted by the industries is permitted to be removed by them. The balance of 50 per cent is disposed of to the registered small scale wood based industries like Slate frames, packing case industries in auction sale. Eucalyptus wood The Forest Department has raised large scale planta- tions of Eucalyptus both pure and mixed. The area raised upto the end of 1980-81 is 94,392 hectares. The planta- tions are worked on a rotation of 9 years in respect of original crop and 8 years in respect of coppice crop. The wood is used as a raw material in rayon Industry as well as paper Industry. It is also a good firewood and used as10 poles. The older plantation are allotted to one rayon grade pulp factory and three paper industries. The following quantities are allotted to the Industries noted below : TABLE—8 Sl Name of the Industry Quantity allotted No 1. Harihar Polyfibres Harthar # 2,05,000 tonnes 2. Mysore Paper Mills 1.'c,., Bhadravuthi 88,000 do 3. West Coast Paper Mls 7 32,000 do Eucalyptus Citridora leaves for distillation of Oil— Three Industries viz M/s Arochem corporation, M/s Doddannavar Brothers and K.S.F.LC. are permitted to extract leaves of Eucalyptus Citridora from both pure and mixed plantations for distillation of oil on lease for 10 years from areas conceded to M/s. Harihar Polyfibres and M/s. West Coast Paper Mills Ltd. Firewood The State is facing shortage of firewood. As per the projected demand at the turn of the Century, the require- ment of firewood will be about 13 million cubic metres, The present demand is about 7 million cubic metres as against the total production of about 3 million cubic metres including private sources. _ The departmental production on an average is about 1.75 million Cubic metres. The Forest Department is making all efforts to meet the future demands of firewood by increasing afforestation and massive Social Forestry Programme. Annually about 10,000 hectares of fuel plantations are being raised apart from free supply of 5 to 6 crores seedlings to the farmers for planting in their Lands. In addition to this the departmental planta- tions in the dry zone under various schemes like rehabilita-il tion of degraded forests also include a good number of fast growing firewood species like Eucalyptus, Soobabul, etc. The Government have transferred the C & D class of lands, which are not fit for agriculture to the Forest Department to take up large scale plantations, mostly of fuel species. The Central Government is also financing the State under the rural fuelwood plantation Scheme to meet the increas- ing demand in the following five selected districts of the state: (1) Mandya (2) Bellary (3) Kolar (4) Gulbarga and (5) Bangalore. A massive Social Forestry Project costing Rs. 60 Crores over a period of 5 years with external assistance has been approved by the Government and it is before the Government of India. Swedish International Development Agency is expected to finance the project from 1982-83 onwards. Distribution of firewood In order to cater to the needs of public in general and particularly of the weaker section, the department by itself and through Karnataka State Forest Industries Corpora- tion has opened a number of firewood depots in the State At present the efforts of the department in making available firewood is limited only to Malnad areas with the main objective of discontinuing the prepaid licence system which has caused considerable damage to the Forests. The list of Firewood depots are given below : Depots run by the Forest Department : Haliyal Division : 6, Hattikeri 1. Dandeli-T x 7. Karwar 2. Dandeli-It : 5. Baad 3. Ambikanage “i 9. Kajunbag LO. N: Karwar Division : ll. M 4. Ankola 12. Chit 5. Keni 13. Bings and ChandiaSirsi Division: 14, Sirsi 15. Siddapura Honnavar Division: 16. Gokatna 17. Gangavali 18. Tadri 19. Bankikodla 20. Heggade 21. Kumta 22, Bad 23. Holegadda 24. Haldipura Depots run by the K.S.F.1.0.: 1, K. Chaultry 2, Millagatte 3. Honnali Road 4. Durgigudi 5. New Toun Depot, Bhadravathi. 6. Bullapura 7. MP.M. Colony, Bhadravathi. 8. Tartkere 9. Kadur 10. Chickmagalur-I ll. Chickmagalur—II 12. Dharwad-I 13. Dharwad-II 14, Hubli-I 15. Hubli-IL 16. Hubli-III 17. Amargol 18. Laxmeswar 19. Gadag 20. Gdag Botageri 21, Bhatkal-I 22. Haveri-I 23. Mangalore Alpe 24. Monokey Stand 25. Urva 26. Alka 12 25. 26. 27, 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34, 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40, 41. 42. 43. 44, 45. 46. 47. 48, 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. Honnavar Kasargod Manki Karki Murdeshwar Bhatpal Shirali and Thingina- gundi. Mysore Dist ELD. Kote Anthara Santhe Hediyal. Nandigudda Madikeri-I Madikeri-II Periyapatna Ranebennur Hunsur K.R. Nagar Virajpet Chamarajanagar Gundlupet Nanjangud Tumkur Haveri-II Byadagi Honnali Chitradurga Gulbarga Davangere Hassan -V.V.Nagar, Belgaum Vedagom Anegol Extension Thilakawadi Sholapur Bangalore Kollegal Bhatkal-II Haliyal.13 In addition to the above firewood is being supplied to 23 co-operative societies functioning at various places in the State for distribution to the public on no loss ro profit basis. Firewood is also being supplied to Hostels and institutions at the sanctioned rates from Government road side depots. TABLE 9 Table showing the firewood supply ce, Firewood released to public for domestic use through: 1980-81 in tonnes (1) Depots run by K.S.F.LC. ... ve 85,415 it) Depots run by Co-operatives om. 70,000 (iii) Depots run by the Department a 73,341 Ic. Firewood released 10 Industries @ 62,144 Sandal wood Annually about 1000 tonnes of Sandalwood is being supplied to the Government Sandal Wood Oil factories situated at Mysore and Shimoga for distillation of Sandal wood oil. Besides the requirements of carvers and Ooda- bathi manufactures have also been met. Experiments by the Forest Research laboratory Ban- galore to eradicate sandal spike disease are being continued. As a precautionary measure all the over mature trees and trees attacked by spike disease and dead trees are being extracted. Concentrated Sandal plantations are also being taken- up in suitable areas to increase the Sandalwood resources in the State. A scheme for intensive cultivation of Sandal Wood costing Rs. 15 lakhs has been sanctioned by Govern- ment and is being implemented. Bamboo for Paper Mills The Out-turn of bamboo in the State has gone down considerably due to gregarious flowering in many parts of14 the State from 1960 and onwards. The out-turn of bamboo is about 1.5 lakhs tonnes per annum. The bamboo is being supplied to the following two paper mills from the bamboo forests of the State : Allotment tonnes 1. West Coast Paper Mills Ltd. Dandeli 1,85,000 2. Mysore Paper Mills, Bhadravathi 1,26,500 During the year 1980-81 the mills have extracted about 1,13,146 tonnes. The Mills are not getting the annually allotted quota of bamboos on account of decrease in the out-turn of Bamboo in recent years. Fresh regeneration of bamboos is getting established and will require some more years to reach the harvesting stage. Green bamboos are also being supplied to Medars and Buruds etc. Supply of Bamboos to cottage Industrics In view of the acute shortage of bamboos and also to avoid reckless removal of bamboos by permit holders, bam- boos are being extracted departmentally and supply to Medars, Buruds, Scheduled caste and Scheduled Tribe people through 37 bamboo depots established by the department at suitable places where these families live in more numbers. TABLE—10 Statement showing the location of Bamboo Depots Cirele District Town village Total in the Circle ro 2 3 q Sumoca —... Shimoga Bhadrava! hj on 1S Channagiri Joldhal Lakkaval i ShimogaKanara Kopacu Mysore Betcaum BELLARY 15 Chickmagalur Uttara Kannada Kodagu Hassan D. Kannada ... Mysore Mysore Belgaum Dharwad Bellary Chitradurga Gulbarga Raichur hoo bee a ao Chickmagalur Koppa Tarikere Bagawati Kirwatti Ramanguli Malgi ‘Mund god Gangavathi Hattikere Kushalnagar Madikeri Hassan Sullia Sampaje Hebri Periyapatna Nettanna Hunsur K.R. Nagar Chamarajanagar Kollegs Sargur Sathnur Belgaum Nagargali Dharwad Kalghatgi Bellary Chitradurga. Gulbarga Raichur x Total 3716 Canes The department is supplying canes since 1975-76 to local Industries and Craftsmen through depots after extrac- ting departmentally. Export of Cane is banned except for the supply of small quantities to the sports goods export promotion council. The outturn of cane is about 650 tonnes per year. Grass for straw Boards and Card-board Industry The following industries are alloted forest areas for collection of Bade grass and Elephant grass for the manu- facture of straw board and Card board on lease basis at the rate of Rs. 15 per tonne. TABLE—11 Quantity Name of Unit Type of grass allotted in tonnes 1, M/s. Thungabhadra Straw Bade grass aa 30,000 Board Industry, Munirabad 2. M/s. Kabini Paper Limited .... Elephant grass... 16,000 3. M/s. Bhadeka Paper Mills, Elephant grass... 15,000 Nanjangud. 4, M/s. Cavery Papers Private Ltd., Elephant grass... 500 An annual revenue of about Rs. 15 lakhs is expected from the supply when the industries avail of the allotted quantities. Gross for distillation of oil Rosha grass is permitted to be collected from the forests by the Karnataka State Industries Corporation, Bangalore on lease basis. The revenue expected from this supply is about Rs. 30,000 per year.17 Supply of wooden sleepers to Railways The total quantity of wooden sleepers supplied during 1981-82 (ie., from Ist November 1980 to 31st October 1981) to the railways against the demands made is as follows :~- TABLE--12 Kind Unit Demand Supplied 1, B.G. Sleepers No. 90,000 12,935 2. M.G. Sleepers No. 60,000 35 3, Special Size m3(s) 500 Supply of timber to the Directorate General of Supplies and disposals, New Delhi, during 1981-82. The department has agreed to supply 200 m3 of ‘A’ and 2000 m3 of ‘B’ quality of teak timber logs at the rates fixed by the department with a supply period upto 30th November 1982 to meet the demands of Railways/ Defence etc. Supply of Timber to other public sectors The following indents which were accepted prior to 1980-81 from the various Public Sector underiakings for supply of various kinds of timber logs against advance pay- ment of value, taxes etc., at the rates in force are still on hand, TABLE— 13 Indenters Kind of timber Unit Quantity 1. N.G.E.F., Bangalore... Haldu logs m3(r) 800 2. BEALL. Bavgalore ... Teak logs c5 960 3. Mozogon Dick Le. Teak logs rr 500 Bombay. 4. Bayat Gol ibacs 1 4.690 F.D.—218 No fresh indents are received/accepted during 1981-82 until the supply of the above quantities are effected Supply to Karnataka State Forest Industries Corporation Forest Department is also issuing round timber to the Karnataka State Forest Industries Corporation Ltd., Bangalore with effect from Ist April, 1975 as and when they are indented for.19 CHAPTER 2 Development Schemes The Department is implementing various develop- mental schemes under the following major categories :— 1) State Plan Schemes. 2) Central Sector Schemes. 3) Centrally Sponsored Schemes. 4) Forest Development Fund Schemes. 5) D.P.A.R. Schemes. 6) Command Area Development Schemes and 7) Western Ghats Development Schemes. Under the various developmental programmes, the department has raised 5,36,722 hectares of plantations and 623 Kms. of avenue plantations till 1980-81. During the year 1981-82, (up to end of December 1981) 24,590 hectares of plantations 175 Kms. of avenue plantations are raised. The extent of plantations of various species raised by the Department and the Karnataka Forest plantation Cor- poration are given in the following table. TABLE—14 Table showing the plantations raised upto 1981-82 (Area in Hectares) Provisional Sl. Species Upto During for ~~ Cumulative No. 1979-80 1980-8L 1981-82 Total (up to Dee, 1981) 1 2 3 4 5 6 1. Teak L004 1,907 2,492 1,15,403 2, Softwood va 88,695 4,763 L747 45,205 3. Cashew v. -29,904 2,356 1,430 33,690 aeSol) Qa 20 Say 1 9 3 4 5 6 4. Eucalyptus... 89,688 4,704 2,150 96,542 5. Fuel - 230,212 13,931 16,471 2,60,614 6. Bamboo we 72700 BT a 1,244 7. Lavendor ve 1,054 aes ws 1,054 8. Red Oil Palm ... 9 vs wo 9 9. Cocoa ie 1415 180 a 1,595 10. Rubber ss 5,527 ot . 5,b27 LL. Spices a 74 ws ae 74 12. Coffee j 20 _ ve 20 13. Tea - 4 aes wa 4 14. Fruit Orchards ... we 31 on 31 15. Avenue Planting 430 Kms. 193 Kms. 175 Kms, 798 Kms. 16, Sancal (Pure)... 299 ae 300 522 Tozal + 508,555 28,389 24.590 5,61,534 ~ and and wal and 130 Kms, 193 Kms. 175 Kms. 798 Kms. The important schemes which are beit:g implemented by the General Wing during the year 1981-02 are detailed below : Soil Conservation This scheme is being operated mostly in the drier tracts of the State, where the areas are prone to soil erosion, on account of barrenness of the land. The afforestation works involves digging of contour trenches, formation of mounds and raising of fuel, fodder and other economically useful species. The physical target for the year 1981-82 is 1480 hectares and the financial outlay is Rs. 27.50 lakhs. Soil Conservation measures have been taken up in the catchment of river valley projects in Nizamsagar, Nagar- junasagar and Thungabhadra Catchments under Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Soil Conservation in the catchments21 of River Valley Projects. The financial outlay for 1981-82 is Rs. 25 lakhs. Teak The demand for teak timber will be intense in the years to come and in order to have sustained supply of teak timber for various constructional, industrial and defence purposes, teak plantations are raised in the areas clearfelled after removal of the existing tree-growth. The physical target fixed under this scheme is 1020 hectares. Softwood (Matchwood and Plywood Species) This is a continuing scheme. The demand for soft- wood particularly the wood required for match and ply- wood Industries is increasing year after year. In addition to this. requirement of the existing industries is being partially met by harvesting the softwood from the natural forests. The natural forests will not be able to supply the growing demand in the years to come. Hence in order to supplement the existing resources, plantations in the suit- able areas have been taken up during 1981-82 also with a target of 1060 hectares. Rehabilitation of degraded Forests It is proposed to improve the stocking in degraded forests through planting suitable species in dry zone. The physical target fixed for the year under this scheme is 688 hectares. Cashew Large scale Cashew Plantations have been raised by the Department since 1950 both under State Plan and Centrally Sponsored Schemes in Coastal Districts of the State. Till the end of 1980-81, 32,260 hectares of Cashew Plantations have been raised. The Physical target for 1981-82 is 1258 hectares. During the year 40 hectares of Progeny Orchard was continued to be maintained under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme,22 The Government of India have approved the imple- mentation of a package Programme of Intensive Cultivation in 8000 hectares of existing cashew plantation; Karnataka Cashew Development Corporation will be implementing this scheme. Special component plan for Scheduled Castes The special component plan is being implemented in same of the districts of Bangalore, Mysore, Shimoga and Kodagu Circles in the State for the welfare of the Scheduled Caste population. The budget grants earmarked for this scheme is Rs. 40 lakhs; out of this, Central Assistance is Rs. 10 lakhs and State Plan outlay is Rs. 30 lakhs. The Government attaches great ‘importance to the implementation of Special Component Plan for the welfare of the Scheduled Caste population. The programmes are to be implemented around cluster of villages with predomi- nent scheduled caste population, in each district in an inten- sive manner for providing lasting benefits to each family, so as to enable this community to cross the poverty line in the shortest possible time. The forestry programmes included for implementation during the year 1981-82 are as follows: (1) Raising plantations for Tassar Silk Cultivation. (2) Free supply of Bee-hive boxes. (3) Supply of seedlings for planting in home-steads and farm lands. (4) Silvipasture (5) Free houses for forest plantation labourers and (6) Free supply of forest produce to artisans. he details of physical and financial progress upto end of December 1981 is given in Table 29,23 Tribal Sub-plan The Tribal Sub-plan with an outlay of Rs. 25 lakhs is being implemented in certain districts. of Mysore, Shimoga and Kodagu Circles for the welfare of the Tribal people. The Tribals since time immemorial have been forest dwellers, having a free life in the forests. They had their traditional vocations like shifting cultivation, hunting, fishing, catching of birds, collection of Minor Forest Produce like honey etc. They are also engaged in the forest works borne on daily wages and on monthly asis. The forestry programmes proposed under this scheme are -— . (1) Raising of M.F.P. yielding plantations. (2) Maintenance of fruit orchards earlier raised. (3) Training in improved method of logging and supply of logging equipments. (4) Organisation and promotion of Forest Labour Co- operative Societies. (5) Construction of houses for Scheduled Tribe Forest Workers. (6) Raising Plantations for Tassar Silk Cultivation. (7) Raising of fruit yielding trees and (8) Maintenance of older plantations. The details of progress achieved under this scheme is given in table No. 30 Forest Development Fund Scheme The Forest Development Fund created by levying cesses on the sale of all Forest Produce is being utilised for raising plantations, The rate of tax has been raised to4 8 per cent from 5 per cent from Ist April 1980. The follow: ing statement gives the details of tax collected during the last five years. ‘Year Amount of Forest Deve- lopment Tax collected Rs. in lakhs 1976—77 «. 125,08 1977—78 .. 136.89 1978—719 +» 156.00 1979—80 +» 170.27 1980—81 -. 190.00 (Provisional) The Forest. Development Tax likely to be collected during the year 1981-82 is about Rs. 250.00 lakhs. The following schemes are being financed from out of the Forest Development Fund during 1981-82. SI. No. Scheme Amount allotted Rs. in lakhs (1) Teak Plantation sr 25.00 (2) Matchwood Plantation a 25.00 (3) Tending logged areas evergreen... 25.00 and semi-evergreen (4) Other plantations 2 175.00 Total s 250.00 ‘The Physical and Financial Targets and achievements upto December 1981 are furnished in table No. 31. Drought Prone Area Programme Drought Prone Area Programme is being implemented in the State since the Fourth Five Year Plan, during which25 period’ mostly relief type of works to mitigate scarcity conditions of the drought stricken area were taken up. During the Fifth Five Year Plan, more diversified activities were taken up with an emphasis on integrated rural developmen, and beneficiary approach, to help the weaker section in gencral. This scheme is being implemented in 10 Districts covering 42 taluks. The Drought Prone Area Programme with the assis- tance of World Bank is being implemented in Bijapur District covering all eleven taluks, from January 1975. The main objectives of the programme is to conserve soil and water resource and utilise them economically for increasing the agriculture production and to restore ecological balance in the area. Under foresry sector the following works hive been taken up and the achievements from 1976-77 to 1981-82 are listed in tables 32 and 33. (i) Afforestation (ii) Pasture Development and (iii) Farm Forestry. Command Area Development Programme Under this programme, the Forest Department has taken up afforestation works in the command areas of the following projects. (1) Tungabhadra and Upper Krishna projects. @) Malaprabha and Ghataprabha projects. (3) Cauvery Basin Projects and (4) Bhadra Project. Integrated Development of Western Ghats Karnataka State’s best forests are located in the Western Ghats Region. These rich forests have been subjected to heavy pressure and large areas have been cleared for other developmental projects, particularly Hydro Electric and Irrigation Projects. Forest resources have26 been depleted due to heavy mining and excessive graring in the region also. This has caused serious ecological imbalance. Since the inception of the scheme several programmes which include bamboo plantations, Softwood plantations, Cashew Plantation, cultivation of medicinal plants and rehabilitation of mining areas have been implemented. The physical and financial achievements are given in Table No. 34. TABLE 15 The following table furnishes the plan allocation and expenditure since Second Plan period upto 1981-82. Plan Allocation Expenditure Rs. in lakhs Re. in lakhs Second Plan ve 146.81 152.90 Third Plan * 425.00 445.94 Three Annual Plans ... 326.50 291.18 Fourth Plan ves 515.00 574.00 Fifth Plan tee 721.00 795.00 1979-80 Fs 362.00 302.00 1980-81 s 455.24 455.24 1981-82 a6 590.00 NA27 CHAPTER—3 ACTIVITIES OF DEVELOPMENT WING DURING 1981-82 (Upto 3ist December 1981) The Development wing of the Forest Department mainly deals with activities connected with the following subjects : (1) Research and Utilisation. (2) Working Plans. (3) Survey and Demarcation. (4) Wild Life Preservation. (5) Project Tiger. (6) Social Forestory. (7) Rubber Plantation (Since transferred to Karna- taka Forest Piantation Corporation Limited from Ist July 1981). Activities of various units during 1981-82 (to end of December 1981) are as under :— Research and Utilisation Activities (a) About 350 hectares of best teak plantations were taken up for thinning and application of fertilizers to encourage wider crown formation and increase in the yield of seeds. These plantations will provide seeds of superior genetics sources for the State Teak Plantations Programme. (b) As a long range measure, teak seed orchards have also been set up over about 25 hectares out of buds obtained from plus trees which are the best teak stems in the country. These plantations will serve as our germ plasm banks for future teak plantations. (a) As in case of teak, seed production stands of eucalyptus and: Sandalwood have also been selected, thinned and manured.28 ({d) Buds of high quality Bor trees obtained from Gujarat have been grafted over about 1000 trees in Bangalore District. The results are very encouraging. Grafting experiments of Tamarind yiclders have also been taken up. (ec) An_area of about 60 hectares at Kalkere on Bannerghatta Road, within 15 kms. of Bangalore has been taken up for formation of an arboratum which will comprise of all Forest types occuring in Karnataka State. (f) Experimental plots have been laid out to study the growth of tropical Pines and Su-babul in different climatic zones. Experiments to find out best species for afforestation of grass lands in the Western ghats were continued. So fat, Acacia auriculiformis has given good results. (g) Mist Chambers have been set up at Mudigere and Madikeri for rooting experiments. (h) 12 hectares of experimental Tea plantations raised during previous years were maintained. Rubber Plantations No fresh Rubber Plantations were raised during the year and 5527 hetares of Rubber Plantations raised previously were maintained. All the Rubber Plantations along with the staff have since been transferred to the control of the Karnalaka Forest Plantation Corporation Limited, Bangalore, for further management with effect from Ist July 1981. Wild Life Preservation There are 3 National Parks, 13 Sanctuaries one Game Reserve and one closed area covering in all 9905.90 Square29 kilometre ‘of forest area in the State. Their names and extent are as under ;— TABLE--16 SI. Particulars Arex in Square Kms No. 1. Bandipur National Park = 874.20 2. Bannerghatia National Park se 104.27 3. Nagarhole National Park ee 571.55 4. Tungabhadra closed area oe 224.22 5. Brahmagiri Wild Life Sanctuary Si 184,29 6. B.R.T. Wild Life Sanctuary 23 324.40 7. Bhadea Wild Life Sanctuary a 492.46 8. Dandeli Wild Life Sanctuary wee 5,729.09 9. Ghataprabha Birds Sanctuary gi 29.28 10. Melkote Temple Wild Life Sanctuary ... 19.82 11. Mookambike Wild Life Sanctuary ose 247.00 2. Nugu Wild Life Sanctuary i 30.32 3. Renebernu’ Buck Black Sanctuary ae 119.00 Ranganasdit.u Bids saxctie y Sh die Wate Lite Somesiwar Wa bi uscy Sharavau Valey W Saueu. § Arbichiitu Game Rese: ve é 13.00 As in previous years, the above National Parks and sanctuaries were maintained during the year under report, consistant with the availability of Budget granis. Mini zoos established at cities and towns were also maintained. An amount of Rs. 40.00 lakhs has been provided during the year 1981-82 under District Sector Scheme of ‘Nature Conservation’ including maintenaiwe of Mini Zoos in cities and towns. In addition to the uvove, under the30 Centrally Sponsored Scheme’ for development of thé selected National Parks and Sanctuaries an amount of Rs. 20.00 lakhs has been provided for, during the year 1981-82 for the development of Bannerghatta National Park, Bhadra and Ranebennur Sanctuaries at the rate of Rs. 8.00, Rs. 6.00 and Rs. 6.00 lakhs respectively, as against the total allotment of Rs. 16.65 lakhs during 1980-81. The entire allotment made for the year 1981-82 is expected to be utilised by the end of March 1982. 3. During the year under report, the State Wild Life Advisory Board was re-constituted. The term of office of the members of the Board is for a period of two years. The Board met on 31st August 1981 and passed resolutions as many as on 31 subjects, which interalia stipulate the creation of the following new Wild Life stanctuaries in Karnataka State and expansion of existing sanctuaries. (a) Adichunchinagiri Peacock Sanctuary (New) (b) N.R. Pura Wild Life Sanctuary (Extension). (c) Cauvery Sanctuary near Sathanur (New). (d) Extension of B.R.T. Hills Sanctuary. and the inclusion of lessons on Forests and Wild Life in the curriculum of the lower classes upto the high school level, and also making an overall assessment of the Wild Life Wealth of the State etc., Action is being taken to imple- ment these and other resolutions. 4. Refresher training was given to a batch of 27 Range Forest Officers for a period of 5 days at Bandipur from 15th September 1981 to 19th September 1981 in’ Principles of Wild Life Management consisting of both lecture and Field studies supplemented by film shows and practical demonstrations. 5. Asa part of the Wild Life Day Celebration this year, a special Myforest issue consisting of articles on all aspects of Wild Life Management was brought out and this31 was released by His Excellency the Governor of Karnataka on 20th November 1981 on the occasion of the inauguration of ‘Aranya Bhavana’ by the President of India. 6. The Task Force Committee which was constituted in G.O. No. FFD 113. FWL. 80, dated 13th March 1981 to monitor the Conservation and Management of plans and to make further recommendations for the development of Bannerghatta National Park, Bhadra and Ranebennur Sanctuaries, under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme met on 6th August 1981 and reviewed the progress during the year 1980-81 and also the programme for 1981-82. 7. It is proposed to implement the scheme of Non- formal education and Re-orientation for Middle and High School Children to cultivate the habit of Nature Conserva- tion and appreciation from this year onwards, as in the case of Gujarat State. 8. The Zoo Authority of Karnataka constituted in G.O. No. FFD. 354, FWL. 78(1) dated 8th January 1979 continued to be under the control of the Forest Department upto end of October 1981. In G.O. No. FFD. 14. FWL 80, dated 30th October 1981 the Governing council of the Zoo Authority of Karnataka was re-constituted by appointing the Divisional Commissioner, Mysore as its Chairman. The reconstituted governing council of the Zoo Authority had already one sitting at Mysore and approved the plans for carrying out improvement to the Zoo taking advantage of the Financial Assistance proposed to be given by the Government of India to the selected Zoos in the country. The implementation of the proposals requ‘re an outlay of Rs. 75,00,000 to be contributed equally by the State and Central Governments. Project Tiger The Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Project Tiger was continued during the year with the assistance of Govern- ment of India on 50:50 basis. The matching grants given32 byt the Government of India during the year was Rs. 5.50 lakhs. The Tiger population has shown a definite increase. Damage to Crop by Wild Elephants A number of cases of damage to standing agricultural crops by Wild Elephants and loss of cattle and human life by Tigers and Panthers were reported during the year and the department took prompt action to pay compensation to the affected persons as per Rules laid by the Government as under: (a) To pay full compensation for the crops damaged by Wild animals (except Wild boars) to the Land owner’s as assessed, by the Conservator of Forests in their respec- tive jurisdictions. (b) to pay compensation of Rs. 5,000 (Rupees five thousand only) for the loss of human life and Rs. 2,000 (Rupees two thousand only) for in-juries leading to per- manent disability caused by Wild Elephants, Tigers, Panthers, Wolves, Hyenas, Bisons and Bears after the Conservator of Forests is satisfied about the genuineness of the case on the basis of the Post-Mortem certificate or Memorandum signed by the concerned District Assistant Surgeon or the District Surgeon as the case may be. (c) to pay full compensition (i.e. full value) for the loss of cattle killed by tigers, panthers and Wolves as per terms and conditions stipulated in Government Order No. AFD. 68. FWL-73, dated 15th June 1976. Working Plan Organisation The Working Plan Divisions continued to attend to the works of revising the Working Plan reports which had expired. Drafting of the following Working Plans was completed during the year,33 1. Working Plans for Forests of Coondapur Division. 2.Working Plans for Hunsur Division. 3. Working Plans for High Forests Block of Yella- pur Division. 4. Working Plans for’ Teak Pole Forests of Mundgod. 5. Working Plans for Forests of Kolar Division. 6. Working Plans for Forests of Chikmagalur Forest Division. Field work is taken up for revising the Working Plans of Shimoga, Bhadravathi, Madikeri and Bidar Forest Divisions. A Statement showing the progress of Working Plans Organisation is enclosed. Survey and Demarcation Survey and Demarcation of the State Forests and also of the ‘C’ & ‘D’ Class revenue waste lands taken over from Revenue Department were continued during the year. The Government have recently sanctioned 25 posts of Range Forest Officers specially to Survey the above areas and it is expected that the staff will be put to position soon and the work will be accelerated. A Statement showing the progress achieved in this regard is enclosed. Social Forestry Of the total geographical area of 1,91,79,100 bectares of Karnataka State, Forest area represents 38,38,406 hectares i.e., 20% of the land areas as against 22.87 per cent of the All India average and 33} per cent prescribed in the National Forest Policy enunciated in 1952. The distribu- tion of these forest areas also not uniform all over the State. EN_2Further, of the total forest area, 22.88 per cent are shrub and thorny forests where the growing stock is very poor. As a result, the sustained yield of fuelwood from the furests is only about 1.75 million m? per year as against the actual requirement of 7 million m3. With the increase in population, this requirement is estimated ta go up to 13 million cubic meires by 2000 A.D. Realising this serious problem, the State Government has decided to plant up all available open lands in the State i.c., Revenue waste lands, Gomal lands. barren forest areas, foreshores of tanks and reservoirs. either sides of roads and canals, fallow and marginal agricultural lands. open areas in industrial estates etc., under the Social Forestry Schemes. It is estimated that about ten lakh hectares of such open areas will be available in the State for planting of trees outside the limits of the State Forests. It is estimated that there are about 20 lakh. hectares of marginal agricultural lands in Karnataka which could be safely diverted for raising of fuel and fodder yielding trees. In order to motivate the farmers to plant more and more trees on their farm lands, the Department has taken steps to raise good quality seedlings and distribute them free of cost to the public. During 1981-82 56 million seedlings were distributed free of cost and the target for next year is 100 million. The response from farmers is very en- couraging. It is proposed to involve schools and Colleges, Voluntary organisations and individual farmers in raising of these seedlings. Physical and Financial Targets achieved 4. Consistent with the funds made available under the Plan Schemes, the following physical and financial targets were achieved during the year :—TABLE—T Achievement Name of Scheme Component Unit = Physical ancial target (Rs. in lakhs) ; 2 3 4 5 6 |. Foresiry for Rural Energy 1. Planting of trees on Kms. 50 Needs (State Plan under either side of National Minimum Needs Pro- and State Highways. gramme). 2. Planting in Gomal and Ha. 4,000 75.00 Waste lands. 3. Canal Bank Km. 10 4. Free distribution of Lakhs 300 seedlings. 300 . Total: 75.00 . Contrally sponsored Scheme 1. Planting of seedlings on Ha. 2,800 of Social Forestry includ- waste lands and ing rising rural fuel wood gomal lands. plantation. 2. Planting in lands owned Ha. 100 50.00 by Public undertakings. 3. Free distribution of Lakhs 200 seedlings. Total: gE36 Under the Centrally sponsored Scheme, 5 districts viz Gulbarga, Bellary, Kolar, Mandya and Bangalore which are chronically deficient in fuelwood, are covered and the Central assistance is limited to Rs. 2.50 crores for 5 years as against the total outlay of Rs. 601.90 lakhs. Project report with much bigger outlays has been now prepared and submitted to Government of India for arrang- ing financial assistance from SIDA or World Bank. The Physical and Financial targets to be achieved under this Project are as under :— Physical targets for 5 years: 1. Road side plantations .. 1500 Kms, 2. Canal Bank plantations .. 2000 ,, 3. Revenue Waste lands «. 40000 Ha 4. Foreshores of tanks and reservoirs -. 8000 ,, 5. Open lands in Government undertakings .. 10000 ,, 6. Barren Forest areas .. 10000 ,, 7. Private holdings .- 10000 ,, 8. Free distribution of seedlings si 250 Million seedlings. Financial target for 5 years: 1982-83 3 7.95 Crores. 1983-84 » 10.03, 1984-85 - 11.84, 1985-86 « IS) 1986-87 -- 15.60 Total .. 58.92 Crores:Biospheres The State Government have agreed to set up the following Biospheres in the State :-— (1) Narasimha Parvatha S.F. Thunga- bhadra S.F. and Upper Bridge of Narvi S.F. 9,000 ha. (2) Kadamkal S.F. anl Pushpagiri R.F. 3,750 ha. (3) Govardhanagiri, Attigedu and Jog R.F. 9,000 ha. (4) Madeshwaramalai R.F. 3,000 ha. (5) Bandipur-Nagarhole Sanctuaries 68,300 ha. Total 93,050 ha. Management Plans for the above areas are stili to be formed and the Government of India directions in the matter are still awaited. Statement of Expenditure under different plan Schemes under implementation in the Development wing upto 31st December 1981, is enclosed. Statement showing the Allotment and Expenditure under Plan Schemes for 1981-82 (to end of December 1981) in Development Wing. TABLE—18 SL Budget Expenditure No. Name of the Scheme for up to end of 1981—82 31-12-1981 1. Forest Research 9.00 5.61 2. Training Institution 1.50 1.11 3. Survery and Demarcation 10.00 1.02 4. Sandalwood plantation 15.00 3.04 45. Tea plantation 2.00 1.6138 2 3 4 6. Communication 1.00 wee 7. Buildings 2.00 2.00 8. Forest publicity 3.00 0.66 9. Minimum Needs programme 195.00 75.00 10. Nature Conservation 40.00 20.00 11. Rubber Plantation 50.00 10.00 12. C.S.S-—Social Forestry 70.00 50.00. 13. Plan monitoring Cell 0.60 20 14. Project Tiger 11.00 7.09 15. C.S.S.—Bannerghatta 8.00 16. C.S.S.—Bhadra Sanctuary 6.00 17. C.S.S.—Ranebennur Sanctuary 6.00 Total 430.10 175.14TABLE=19 Progress of Working Plan Organisation (Arca in Sq. Kms.) Sl. Name of the Citele Totalarea Area already covered Revised working Balance area No. by working Plans Plan under to be covered Progress 7 2 3 4 5 . 1. Bangalore 6,818.90 6,691.82 $9 127.00 2. Shimoga 3,059.19 1,109.44 1,949.75 3. Chickmagalur 2,667.59 2,667.59 . .. 4. Mysore 7,603.89 6,024.95 981.51 527.42 5. Dharwar 11,830.72 7,482.41 3 848.31 Total 31,430.29 23,976.21 2,931.26 6€40 CHAPTER—4 Other Important Information on the Department The increasing population has direct bearing on incre- ased demand for agriculturai land and this has always an adverse impact on valuable forests. Besides increased communications, settlement of expropriated ryots and refugees, release of lands for irrigation and hydro-electric projects have also made a heavy impact on forests. The release of forest lands has now been discouraged and any such proposal has to be approved by both the Houses of Legislature. -According to the recently enacted Central Forest Conservation Act, no forest land can be released for non-forestry purpose in the State without specific approval of Government of India. The following table furnishes the forest area lost from 1956 till date for various purposes. TABLE—20 SL. Purpose Extent, lost No. in Hectares 1. Areas gone under submersion 35,840 2. Areas released for rehabilitation of expro- priated ryots. 25.820 3. Areas gone under power lines 1,688 4. Areas given for cultivation 67.217 5. Areas gone under mining 42.676 6. Areas given for town-ships 1,791 7. Areas given for other non-agricultural purpose. 6,297 8. Area lost for Kalinadi project 12,500 9. Area lost for Chakra Project 2,690 10. Area lost for Varahi project 15,634 11. Area lost for Gangavathi Project 10,039 12. Area lost for Colony and roads 330 13. Area lost for Beadati Project I Phase 295 Total 222,7274} FOREST FINANCE ‘The foilowing Table furnishes the—Revenue and Expendi- ture of the Forest Department since 1965-66 TABLE—21 Revenue Expenditure Year in Crores in Crores of Rupees of Rupees 1965—66 10.08 5:15 1966—67 10.97 5.14 1967—68 11.06 5.82 1968—69 13.35 6.16 1969-70 14.02 7.9 1970—71 14.50 2.54 1971—72 16.40 8.18 1972—73 20.85 8.35 1973—74 21-64 8.85 1974—75 27.82 10.45 1975-76 29,29 11.09 1976—77 29.00 12.30 1977-78 29.92 13.31 1978—79 30.85 15.28 1979—80 33.55 17.42 1980—81 35.74 25.17" 1981—82 40.00* 25.55* *Provisional Esimate, ~oTABLE--22 Per Hectare Revenue and E:.penditure wy Per Ha. Revenue Per Ha. Expenditure State (in Rupees) (in Rupees) Major Minor Non; Plan and Products Products Total Plan Development Total ~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1976-77 # Karnataxa ae ae 78.81 10.31 89.12 33.40 8.11 41.51 Aub INpia oe oe 29.47 18.63 48.10 20.73 6.36 27.09 1977-78 Karnataka ay 8% 74.11 TET 85.88 30.17 7.29 37.46 1978-79 Karnataka te we 79.01 11.04 90.05 33.37 10.27 43.64 1979-80 Karnataka ae we 79.24 14.61 93.85 36.37 12.96 49.33 1980-81 (Provisional) Karnataka 90.46 8.71 99.17 43.43 12.16 55.5943 Forest Protection Forest Protection is posing a problem to the Depart- ment. To over come this the Department has taken several measures. The staff at the root level has been organised in Kanara Citcle. Proposals for the strengthening of staff in Shimoga Circle are before the Government for sanction. The various protective staff of the department are provided with arms and ammunition, specially in the border areas and it has had beneficial effects on protection. There are 18 Forest Mobile Squads in the State attending only to anti-smugging duties. The details of the number of cases booked both by the territorial staff and the Forest Mobile Squads are furnished in Table-36. Karnataka is the pioneer in introducing wireless net work for prevention of smuggling forest produce. A net work of 74 Stations has already been established along the border of the State which is immensely helping the depart- ment. To over come this the Department has taken of this new work through out the major forest areas of the State is under the consideration of the Government. Rewards During the year the following 10 Officers have been given Chief Minister’s awards for showing, out standing . courage while apprehending the smugglers : 1. B. Natarajan, IF.S., Deputy Conservator of Forests. 2. K. A. Prabhakar, Range Forest Officer. 3. S. R. Gopalakrishna, Range Forest Officer.44 Shiva Puttegowda, Range Forest Officer. K. Raju, Range Forest Officer. V. K. Narayana, Forester. Rangaswamy, Forest Guard. Chandrashekharaiah, Forest Guard. N. K. Hanumegowda, Forest Guard. 10. Abdul Rasheed, Driver. CRIA ‘Compulsory Planting The State Government have recently brought into force the* Compulsory planting provisions of the Tree Preservation Act through-out the State. The Government have also fixed standards for compulsory planting both in the Urban and Rural areas as follows :-— TABLE -23 Minimum number Locality Area of trees to be planted I. Unnan Argas : House sites 1) 222 sq. Mtrs. 2 trees 2) Above 222 Sq. 3 trees Mrs., bat below 892 xq. Mrs. 28 : 4 trees Vacant lands incluling 25 trees per vacant lands under Heetare the control of indus- tries and instivutions. HI. Rurau Areas: 1) Agricultural lands aa Minimum of 10 trees per hectare. 2) Non-Agricultural os 25 trees per vacant lands. hectare.45 Posting of Range Forest Officers in each taluk of the State The Government have sanctioned creation of 64 posts of Range Forest Officers for posting to Taluks where there were no Range Officers earlier. Scarcity Relief Works The Forest Department has helped to tide over the scarcity conditions in the State by employing a large number of affected people in various forestry works The total amount spent during 1981-82 is Rs. 35.67 lakhs. Apart from providing relief to the people, afforestation taken-up under the Scarcity relief works will help to ameliorate the conditions in the dry zone. Employment Affirmation Scheme The Forest Department is also associating itself in the implementation of the employment affirmation Schemes in the State. Works like advance pitting and trenching, raising of scedlings are taken-up under the schemes during the lean period.40 CHAPTER—5 Karnataka State Forest Industries Corporation Limited The Karnataka State Forest Industries Corporation Limited, was established in the year 1973 with the object of achieving better utilisation of forest land and Forest resources and. also to have salvage recovery from rejects and dead woods etc. The Corporation is a fully owned Govern- ment of Karnataka undertaking, entire capital having been contributed by the State Government. The company has an authorised Equity Capital of Rs. Two crores divided into 20,000 equity shares of Rs. 1,000. The paid up capital is Rs. 67-62 lakhs. Out of Rs, 67-62 lakhs capital, Rs, 28-49 lakhs has been invested by the Corporation in the equity capital of its subsidiaries viz., (1} Karnataka State | Veneers Lid., (2) Rosewood Products Limited and (3) Mysore Match Company Ltd. These subsidiary companies are deemed to be Government Companies by virtue of the provisions of the companies Act. The Directors of the Corporation are nominated by the Government. The Corporation deals in the following products/acti- vities at present. (a) Saw Mills and Wood Preservation Piants and manufacturing of furniture, Sawn sizes, house bui.ding materiais for Janatha Housing Scheme ete. (b) Firewood Depots, ic) Green grass dehydration and pelletisation plant (d) Pineapple cultivation (e) Distillation of essential oils (f) Trading of polythene bags, paper and barbedwire The Corporation is running three saw mills, four season- ing kilns and two wood preservation plants handed over by the Forest Department with effect from Ist Aprii 1975 along with men, machine and material.aT The Corporation’s products are being catered to Government Departments, Industrial users farmers and general consumers. Firewood Depots The Corporation has been entrusted with the work of distribution of firewood to bonafide consumers. Presently the Corporation has 53 depots. On an average about 150 tonnes of firewood per month is being sold from each Depot. It had handled about 85,500 tonnes of firewood during the year 1980-81. Green Grass Dehydration and Pelletisation Plant The project is undertaken under Grant-in-aid provided in the Integrated Development of Western Ghat Region The preiect has about 350 acres. The plant h en Set up at Balekoppa in Siddapura Taluk. Gcverament have realised Rs. 63.75 lakhs out of which Rs, 10.85 lakhs was treated as equity contribution and Rs, 52.90 lakhs as grant- in-aid. The commercial production was started during January 198i. The company has sold 1390 tonnes of grass during 1979-80. During 1980-81 the unit has produced 45 tonnes of pellets and sold about 40 tonnes. Pineapple cultivation During 1974-75 the Corporation took up cultivation of Pineapple at Banavasi in U.K. District in about 150 acres of Forest land. The production of pineapple during 1979-80 was 285 tonnes and that during 1980-81 was about 250 tonnes. Distillation of Essential Oils The Corporation had started distillation of Eucalyptus Citridora Oil from 1974. The production of this oil which is used in the manufacture of aromatics and soaps during 1980-81, was 3 tonnes.48 Manufacture of Katha from Catechu trees The unit is at Bhatkal. The manufacture of Katha is. seasonal. The production of katha during 1979-80 was. about a tonne. The production is temporarily suspended. Activities of the subsidiaries {1) Karnataka State Veneers Ltd,, Dandeli The company has installed sophisticated slicing unit capable of slicing veneers down to 0.18 m.m. with minimum tolerance confirming to International Standards. This is one of the two units of this kind in India. It has got steady market within and outside. The company has already entered the International Market and is securing regular orders from countries fike Japan, Italy and U.S.S.R. The unit has an installed capacity of 4200 CMT. The net profit during previous 3 years was.6.09, 35.59 and 20.68 lakhs respectively. The company has plans to improve the unit further.49 TABLE—24 Financial Results of KSFIC for the 1979-80 and 1980-81 (Provisional) Rs. in lakhs Particulars 1979-80 1980-81 (provisional) - (provisional) (a) Sales wv $40.51 366.54 (5) Other Service charges 38.56 14.57 {e) Miscellancous receipis ae 2.25 1.66 (@) enterest Earned... we 0.32 4,15 (e) Closing stock a. 1BT.02 132.67 To... 532.66 516.59 (f) Opening stock... ke 49.45 151.02 (9) Purchases ve ws 842,03 246.13 (h) Manufacturing, administra- tive and Selling expenses 102.63 138.34 I... 494,11 535.49 Cash Profit LIT Lessinterest 38.55 (--) 18.90 Less interest wee a 0.80 4.94 Less Depreciation we 37.75 (—-)23 84 ~ _ 1.90 1.98 Net Adjust ments aes 35.85 {--) 25.80 ~-17,86 +) 34.95 +17 99 (-) 9.15 The figures furnished for the year 1979-80 are provisional and subject to aulit. The iaformation “+ the year 198-81 is yet to be finalised. TaeTABLE--25 Tae detai’s of production of differ iat products. «te during the last 5 years are given below _ 198-81 Products Unit 7-78 1978-79 1979-80 (Provisiotnnat audit) | 2 3 4 5 6 7 (Tonnes) 9.8 8.0 Ka hy do : <3 Sawn sz 8 (mir) 1741 2,500 Persitwre .. (Nos) 5256 12,208 15.000 8,000 LW lows/JHS Doors do 10,409 16 1,668, 35,058 a 8 do 10,369, 40 512 35,058 . S miss do @ 35,058 + P novggle (T nnes) 5 250 Fee wsss pellets do . is 45 Poles Nos.) 2.136 7.009 4,000 Sleepar as 16,000 ” Purchase of : (a) Timber logs . .. (Cmtr.) 9,207 6,115 7644 6,138 5,500 (0) Berbot wie wt .. (Tonne) 199 26 69 o (2) Pity hes do 297 256 32h CBr ewoout do 41,8601 98 361 £0,000 KY Bam’ oos (Nos.) 615,925 6,27,156 (A) Panes (Tonnes) ly (7) Hardie atis (Nos.) 1,85451 CHAPTER—6 Karnataka Forest Plantation Corporation Limited Karnataka Forest Plantation Corporation, Limited was established during 1971. The authorised phase capital of the Corporation is Rs. 1,000 lakhs. The Corporation has already subscribed and paid up a sum of Rs. 137 lakhs. >the objectives of the corporation is to raise industrial planta- tions like Eucalyptus, Cocoa, Rubber etc. Eucalyptus Plantations The Corporation has raised 26,000 ha. of Eucalyptus Plantatation. Out of 26,000 ha., 12,000 ha. have been raised with institutional finance and the balance area with the internal resources of the Corporation. The 26,000 ha. Eucalyptus plantations are expected to yield pulp-wood from 1982-83 till 1997-98 for being supplied to the Industries depending upon pulp-wood to the tune of 5,92,000 tonnes. ‘The Revenue expected is about Rs. 1870 lakhs. The Corporation has a programme to raise 15,000 ha, ‘of new Eucalyptus plantations between 81-82 to 85-86. The total project cost is Rs. 1955 lakhs out of which Rs, 1430 lakhs is from the institutional finance and Rs. 525 lakhs from the share capital to be contributed by the State Government. The Agricultural Refinance and Develop qnent Corporation has cleared the project. In the mean- while the Corporation has borrowed over Rs. 30 lakhs arid has started the project implementation. It is estimated that this 15.000 ha., plantations will yield pulpwood between 1988-89 and 2002-2003 to the tone of 13 lakhs tonnes and ‘the revenue expected is Rs. 4,473 lakhs. The Corporation is also distilling the Eucalyptus Oil from. Eucalyptus citridora plantations. Annually about 4 to 6 tonnes of Oil is being distilled.52 Cocoa Plantations The Corporation has raised over 600 ha., of cocoa polantatins so far in addition to maintaining of the 1056 ha. of cocoa plantations transferred by the Forest Department Raising of Cocoa plantations further is discontinued due to poor market rates and also other unfavourable factors. Rubber Plantations Over 4,000 ha., of Rubber Plantations have transferred’ to the Corporation for intensive and commercial manage~ ment with the help of the Institutional Finance. The Capital cost of over Rs. 600 lakhs spent on rubber plantations by the Government is being treated as equity contribution. towards the authorised capital of the Corporation. The daily production of rubber now is around 5 tonnes. Agave Plantation The Corporation has also raised plantations in Rane-. bennur areas of the Corporation. The harvesting of this: crop has been taken-up during this year. TABLE--26 Table showing the Out-turn and Revenue Quantity in tonnes Revenue in Rupees St. Produce - 1980-81 1981-82 1980-81 1981-82 No. upto Dec. upto Dee 1981) 1981) I 2 3 4 5 6 1. Eucalypius Wood wo. 76,834 25.234 40,49,727 5,92,762 2. Cocoa Beans... 16.6 5.5 355,696 99,000 3. *Rubbar ae 1,326 ae 1,05,68,566 *Information pertains to Forest Department.53 CHAPTER—7 Activities of the Karnataka Cashew Development Corpo- ration Ltd. The Karnataka Cashew Development Corporation Ltd. was established during 1978. The Government of Karna- taka have transferred 8,000 ha. of Forest Cashew Planta- tions to Karnataka Cashew Development Corporation Limited during 1979 for intensive cultivation. The Corporation is engaged in maintaining 8000 hect- ares of old Cashew Plantation. In addition to this it has got the following projects to be implemented. (1) LD.A. (WBA) Cashew Project It comprises of raising 2,500 hectares of Cashew Planta- tions in the areas released by the Forest Department and improvement of 500 hectares. The Agricultural Refinance and Development Corporation and Government of Karna- taka have sanctioned the project and the peried uf imple- mentation is 5 years fram 1980-81 to 1984-85. (2) Pilot Project (1300 Ha.) The A.R.D.C. have accorded sanction for 478 hectares. The Corporation has already implemented the project with the internal resources. 43) Rehabilitation of older Cashew Plantations (6000 ha.) Pending receipt of sanctions from ARDC and Govern- ment of Karnataka, the Corporation had already started implementing this project. The entire area of 6000 hectares is to be covered in a period of 3 years starting from 1981-82 to 1983-84 at 2000 hectares annually. The progress achieved under the above projects are given at the end of this chapter. Areal Spraying.—Areal spraying of 8000 ha. of cashew plantations has given good result in controlling Tea Mos- quito menace. During 1981-82 also I and IE round of arial spraying has been completed.TABLE Statement showing the progress of the projects of K.F.F.C. Target for Turget for SL Name of the Scheme : the plan for 1980-81/ Achievement Progress in 1980-81] expected in No. period 1981-3 1981 the remaining period 1 2 8 4 5 6 (1) I.D.A. (WBA) Cashew Project 1980-81 to 1984- &5: (a) Now plen'ing we .. 2,600 ha. 615 he. 400 ho, 2,100 ha, (0) Improvement “3 BOO he, 125 ha. 175 ha B25 ha (2) Pilot Scheme (1300 ha.) 1981-82 to 1984-85: 1,300 ha 853 ha. 853 ha 4/7 ha. (.) Rehabilitation of older Cashew Plantations: 1981 $2 to 192-84: 6,000 his. 2,060 ks. 2,000 he 4,000 haTABLE 28 Statement showingthe Target and Achievement under Plan Schemes upto end of December 1981—- Karnataka Forest Department Sl. Name of the Allotmentfor Physical Target for 1981-82 Achievement upto end. of Dec. 1981 No. Scheme 1981-82 (Rs. in lakhs) Physical Financial 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1,,Rehabilitation 10.00 (1) Maintenance of Plantations (1) Maintenance of Planta- 8.17 Degraded Forests. 274 Hect. tions 274 Hect. (2) Raising of Plantations (2) Raised Plantations 668 Hect. 446 Hect. (3) Raising of Polythene bagged (3) Raised Polythene bagged Seedlings. 2.50 lakhs. seedlings 3.10 lakhs. (4) Advance Work 70 Hect. sees 2. Matchwood 14.00 (1) Maintenance of Plantation (1) Maintenance of 96 Hect, Go: Plantations. 40 Hect. (2) Maintenance of Nursery beds (2) Maintained. 500 Nos. . (3) Advance work 45 Hects. (3) (4) Raising Nursery Beds (4) 306 Beds. (5) Raising Plantations 807 Hect. (5) Plantations Raisud 807 Hect, sgTapue-28—(contd.) ‘Allotment ‘Achievement upto end of Dec. 1981 Sl. Name of the for Pysical Target for 1981-82 We No. Schemes ‘1981-82 Physical Financial (Rs. in lakhs) - 2 3 4 =, 5 6 3. Teak Plantations 15.00 (1) Raising Plantations 520 Hect (1) Reised Plantations 7.63 487 Hect. 4. Cashew Planta- 8.34 tions 5. Nature Conser- 40.00 vation (2) Maintenance of Teak Planta- (2) Maintained. tions 151 Hects. (3) Raising Nursery Beds 1960 (3) 500 Nursery Beds raised. (4) Collection of Seeds 10,000 (4) igs. (5) Advance work 20 Hee (5) (1) Raising Cashew Platnataion (1) Raised 339 Hects 7.00. 350 Heel. _ (2) Purchase of Seeds (2) 1.00 M. Tonne (3) Maintenance of Older Plan (3) Maintained tations 330 Hect. (1) Development of Sanctuaries, (1) National Parks and Mini Zoos. 9¢6. 513 Capital Out- lay on Forests, Communications. 7. 513-Capital Out- lay on Forests— Buildings. 8. Tribal Sub-Plan 9. General Sub-Plan 5.00 20.00 25.00 30.00 Formation of Roads Formation of Roads 0.36 Construction of Staff Quarters Construction of Staff 3.66 Quarters. (1) Maintenance of Fruit Yield- (1) Maintained 9.23 ing Plantations. (2) Construction of Tribal (2) 13 Houses completed Houses 124 Nos. (3) Raising of M-F.P. Planta~ 3 tions 100 Heets. (1) Raising P.B. Seedlings - (1) Raised 8.5 lakhs 9.19 o 6.5 lakhs. “ (2) Construction of Houses (2) 37 Nos. (3) Raising Plantations 215 Hect. (3) 88 Hects. (4) Purchase of Bechive Boxes (4) 150 (5) Maintenance of P.B. (5) : Seedilings 8 lakh . (6) Raising Nursery beds (6) 100 Beds 400 Nos. (7) Advance Work 70 Heets (7) (8) Supply of Bamboos to Arti- (8) sans of Schedule Castes 20,000 Nos1 2 3 10. Tea Plantations 2.00 11. Soil Conservation 27.50 Afforestation. 12. Rural Bnergy 195,00 Neod (M.N.P.) Minimum Need Programme. TABLE 28 (Contd.) 4 a 5 "6 (1) Maintenance of Tea Planta- tions. (1) Maintenance (1) Raising Plantations 563 Hect. (1) 427 Hect. Plantations raised. (2) Maintenance of Plantations (2) Maintenance 1110 Heet. (3) Spill over works 100 Hect. (3) 100 Hects. (4) Raising of Boundary Trench (4) 2000 Rmtr. Completed Mounds Planatations 10,000 RMtr. (5) Raising of P.B. Seedlings 5.09 lakhs (6) Maintenance of P.B. Seedli- lings 3 lakhs. (7) Ripping work 40 TI cts. (1) Free distribution of 300 lakhs P.B. Seedlings. 17.31 (5) Raised 3.87 Lakhs. (6) Maintenance of P.B. geadings 1.00 lakhs. (7) Ripping work 16 Heets. (1) Raising of Avenue 75.00 Trees, (National and (1) State Highways 50 Kms. (2) Plantations of Gomal and aste lands. (3) Canal Bank 10 Kms, (2) 4000 Hect. (3) Canal Banks 10 Kms, 8gcad Forest Research 9.00 14. Forest Training 8.00 15. Forest Survey and 10 00 Dem®teation. 16. Forest Statistics 2.00 17. Forest Publicity 3.00 18. Centrally Sponsored _Schomes (Central Sector). 19. Rubber Plantations 50.00 20. Rural Energy Need s0.60 Establishment of Monitering Cell. (1) Chief Conservator of Forests (Development). (2) (3) (4) do (5) CCF CL). (6) CCF (Development) Q) (1) Training of Forest Guards (1) Survey and Demareation (1) Maintenance of Staff (1) Expenditure towards publi city. (1) a) (1) Survey and Demarea- tion. (1) Maintenance of Staff (1) Expenditure towards Pabticity. (1) Maintenance of Rubber Plan— (1)Maintenance of Rubber tations. (7) Transferred to Plantation C rrv (8) do 3.61 2 ru (3) 1.02 ) 0.22 () 0.66 (6) 10.00 fi) (8) 6¢1 2 3 Centrally Sponsored Schemes : 21. Area Expansion of 9.00 CaShew 22. Soil Conservation 25.00 (Biver Valley Project.) 23, Maintenance of 0.20 Progeny Orchard for Cashew. 24, Raral Energy Needs 70.00 Centrally Spon- sored Schemes including Rural Fuel Wood Plau- tations. (1) Raising of Cashew Planta- tions—-258 He t. (2) Advance work-~210 Hect. (3) Maintenance of Plantations (1) Raising of Plantations 670 Heets. (2) Maintenance of Plantations 720 Heets. (3) Construction of Check Dams. (4) Raising of P.B. Seedlings 1.50 lakhs, (2) Maintenaney of 44 Hoot. of Progony Orchard for Cashew. (1) Maintenance of B.B. Seed- Tings 80 lakhs. (2) Planting of 2,300 Heot. (8) Raising of PB. Seodlings 95.00 lakhs. (4) Avenue Trees planting 4K.Ms. (5) Public Under a ing Plan ations 100 Hect: (1) Raised 275 Hect. 2.11 , (2) 626 Heets. (1) Raised 180 Heets 9.98 (2) Maintenance @) 4) (1) Maintained 44 Hoet. 0.16 ( 50.00* (2) Planting 2,800 Hoots, (8) P.B. Seedlings 2.00 lakhs (4) (5) 100 Heets, ag