Asian Governments Banking On Social Forestry To Sustain Reforestation Efforts
A village group in Indonensia’s Kalimantan Island plants a small community fuelwood plantation. A Vietnamese landowner plants trees along her field as a living fence and as source of fuelwood. Filipino farmers plant trees that they will sell later to a local paer mill, for pulpwood. Rural landless people in West Bengal, India, plant, tend, and benefit from trees they grow on government lands. Villagers in the Chacon Valley of Nepal trees along fields for windbreaks and fuelwood. Villagers in Thailand intercrop trees with food crops.
Dr. Michael A. Bengwayan
