WHY WE GO FOR PLANTATION

PLANTATION
A
GLOBAL ISSUE
 PLANTATION
 A plantation is a large artificially established
forest, farm or estate.
 Crops grown on plantations include fast-
growing trees (often conifers), cotton, coffee,
tobacco, sugar cane, sisal, some oil seeds
(notably oil palms) and rubber trees.
 The history of the environmental, social and
economic issues relating to plantation.
 WHY PLANTATION ?
 Tree plantations potentially offer many direct and indirect
environmental benefits:
 Tree Plantations and Soil/water Issues

 Tree Plantations and Biodiversity

 Tree Plantations and Climate

 Tree Plantations and Social Economics

 IMPACT ON Soil/water Issues
 Soil Issues:

 The positive effects of plantations on soil

conservation.
 Protection of the soil surface from the
direct impact of rain
 Improvement of soil structure through
root penetration and
 Addition of organic matter from
decomposing leaves, roots, and wood
which has helped to improve its water
retention and soil fertility.
 IMPACT ON Soil/water Issues
contd…

Water Issues:
The beneficial effects of plantation on
water quality, soil erosion prevention, and
the reliability of water supply have long
been recognized
 "Reserved in Forest for the Rains”
 "Forest Conservation and the Maintenance of
Water Supplies."
 Many natural forest reserves have been
established around the world in
mountainous areas for the protection of
municipal water supplies.
 IMPACT ON Biodiversity
 Biodiversity refers to the number of different kinds of plants
and animals found in a particular area such as a hectare of
forest, and entire country, or the earth.
 Protection to each organism, even those that
are unknown and unnamed, has some value.
 Many plants and animals are valued for the
medicinal chemicals they produce or for their
importance to forestry or agriculture.
 Conserving other species are valued for their beauty or other
special properties. Many species, even obscure organisms in the
soil, may play important but poorly understood roles in
improving soil fertility, in preventing diseases and pests from
affecting crops, or otherwise maintaining a balance of nature
that is favorable to human existence.
 IMPACT ON CLIMATE

 Plantation makes the environment clean.

 Reduces “GLOBAL
WARMING” and makes the
earth suitable for lives.
 Trees in our forests draw the
rain from the clouds floating
in the sky.
 Manufacturer of “OXYGEN”.

 Removes “CARBON DIOXIDE”.

Vegetation as a protection against weather influences
 Impact on Social Economics

 Source of food as well as medicine.

 Generate employments.
 Improve the living standard of the people.
 Play a great role in development of a state,
region, and the nation as the whole if properly
planned and integrated into the multiple
landuse.
THANKS