TECHNICAL REPORT ON - Greening and Restoration of Wastelands with Agroforestry

Due to the significance of goods and services provided by agroforestry, the Union Budget of Government of India (FY-2022-23) has underlined the promotion of agroforestry and private forestry as a priority. [...] The policy was a cumulative result of many other policies and schemes emphasising on the importance of agroforestry like the National Forest Policy (1988), the Planning Commission Task Force on Greening India (2001), the National Bamboo Mission (2002), the National Policy on Farmers, (2007) and the National Mission for a Green India (2010). [...] Slope: Slope is described as the measurement of the rate of change of elevation of the land per unit distance. [...] The methodology includes the pre-processing of input datasets related to generating surface areas of water bodies, slope and soil organic carbon data for each state, proximity analysis of the water bodies data, waterbody layers with classes for ASI computation, assignment of ranks, computation of ASI and finally classification of land using ASI to derive the output results. [...] Waterbody layers with classes for ASI computation Note: The ‘Buffer Analysis’ of the waterbody data is done using a model builder written in QGIS software, which consists of all the operations listed above and takes in the India waterbody data and the state name as the parameter and gives the waterbody data for that particular state after the buffer analysis and ranks assignment.