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.
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Table of Contents
- Greening and Restoration of Wastelands with Agroforestry 3
- G.R.O.W 3
- Table of Contents 5
- 1. Introduction 1 5
- 2. Prospects for wastelands greening and restoration with Agroforestry 5 5
- 3. Methodology 15 5
- 4. Results 29 5
- 5. Access to State UTs and District level Suitability Maps for wastelands 5
- 6. Way Forward 67 5
- 7. References 71 5
- 8. Annexures 75 5
- List of Figures 6
- List of Tables 7
- Acknowledgement 11
- Abbreviations and 13
- Acronyms 13
- Executive Summary 15
- Introduction 17
- 1.1 OBJECTIVES 19
- Prospects for wastelands greening and restoration 21
- 2.1 NATIONAL AGROFORESTRY POLICY 21
- Table 1 Agroforestry area 22
- 2.2 WASTELANDS DEFINITION AND TYPES 23
- Table 2 Different classes of Wastelands as per Wastelands Atlas of India 24
- 2.3 NECESSITY FOR WASTELANDS GREENING 25
- 2.4 AGROFORESTRY INTERVENTIONS IN TRANSFORMING WASTELANDS 27
- 2.5 WASTELANDS SUITABILITY MAPPING USING GEOSPATIAL 28
- APPROACH 28
- Methodology 31
- 3.1 STUDY AREA 31
- 3.2 APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY 31
- 3.2.1 Datasets used 31
- 3.2.2 Methodology 35
- Landuse Wasteland Slope Water body 35
- Agroforestry Suitability Map 35
- Soil Carbon 35
- Bufer Analysis 35
- 3.3 PRE-PROCESSING OF THE INPUT DATASETS 35
- Table 5 Different Land Use Land Cover classes with ranking 36
- Table 6 Different wasteland classes with ranking 37
- Table 7 Category of slopes in with ranking 38
- Table 8 Proximity of waterbody in meters and its ranking 38
- Table 9 Soil Carbon Kgsq.m with ranking 38
- 3.3.1 Generating waterody slope and soil organic carbon data for each 39
- 3.3.2 Proximity analysis of waterbody data. 40
- 3.3.3 Assignment of ranks 41
- 3.3.4 Computation of Agroforestry Suitability Index ASI 42
- 3.3.5 Integration of parameters in GIS and Calculation of Total ASI 42
- Table 10 Parameters and weightages used for ASI. 42
- 3.3.6 Classification using Agroforestry Suitability Index 43
- Table 11 Ranking of classes used for Agroforestry Suitability Index 43
- Results 45
- 4.1 NATIONAL LEVEL MAPPING OUTPUT 45
- Table 12 Statewise distribution of potential areas for greening as percent of TGA 46
- 4.2 CASE STUDY OF ASI OF MADHYA PRADESH 49
- Access to State 55
- UTs and District level 55
- Bhuvan Geoportal 55
- Way Forward 83
- Scaling-up GROW in a 83
- Mission Mode 83
- References 87
- Annexure 91
- ANNEXURE-I DETAILS OF AUTHORS CONTRIBUTORS 91
- ANNEXURE-II INSTITUTIONS SUPPORTED IN GROUND TRUTHING 92
- ANNEXURE-III AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS SUITABLE FOR 95
- WASTELAND GREENING IN DIFFERENT AGROCLIMATIC ZONES 95
- ANNEXURE IV HELP DOCUMENT FOR WASTELANDS GREENING WITH AGROFORESTRY - SUITABILITY MAPPING PORTAL 100
- 1. User Roles 100
- 2. Login 100
- 4. Map visualisation 103
- 5. Statistics for Area of Interest AOI of the user. 105
- 6. Pilot Study This module is available for all authorized user roles. 106