Prakash Kamat in Panaji
July 04-The Goa State Biodiversity Board (GSBB) will take up an ambitious programme for a sustainable sapling plantation of unique indigenous fruit-bearing plants with 1 lakh saplings per annum over a period of five years and ensuring their survival audit in that period.
The programme on which the GSBB is planning to spend Rs.20 lakh per annum over a five-year pwriod is devised to ensure survival and sustainability of the saplings for first 5 years with the active involvement of its 191 Biodiversity Management Committees(BMC) across the State.
A unique feature of this programme will be some annual maintenance support to be provided to those who participate, in a reducing manner.
Talking to this journalist at the office of the GSBB at Saleigao in North Goa, Member Secretary of GSBB Dr. Pradip Sarmokadam said that the assistance for the participants/BMCs will be just a "hand-holding" and not grants.
"They can't depend on us. If this model works, I am quite sure the greenery what we commit will be sustainably existing for five years", he said, adding,"If for five years any fruit-bearing plantation can exist,it is a big thing.It will start giving its first fruits."
Apart from local fruit-bearing trees, there will be some costly saplings which could go beyond GSBB budget,like coconut,cashew,etc
The GSBB is almost in the final stage of preparing the programme whereby it intends to give one-time saplings or a support to develop a nursery of indigenous variety of unique fruit-bearing and other plants.
The people and organisations will do the planting and the local BMCS will audit it fir five years.
"In between there will be some financial support in a reducing method over five years as a hand-holding".They can't depend on us", says Member Secretary.
He opines that minimum 1 lakh sapling plantation target per annum they are proposing was really ambitious and a challenge as at present all departments taken together the government distributes around 40,000 to 50,000 saplings per annum.
He exudes confidence that audit by BMCs and hand-holding support would reduce the survivability gap to around 10%, as per their projection, contrary to present sapling plantation and afforestation programmes where this aspect does not get sufficient attention.
By working out functions like plant survival audit to them, the GSBB also wants to ensure that the BMCs do not become dormant.
July 04-The Goa State Biodiversity Board (GSBB) will take up an ambitious programme for a sustainable sapling plantation of unique indigenous fruit-bearing plants with 1 lakh saplings per annum over a period of five years and ensuring their survival audit in that period.
The programme on which the GSBB is planning to spend Rs.20 lakh per annum over a five-year pwriod is devised to ensure survival and sustainability of the saplings for first 5 years with the active involvement of its 191 Biodiversity Management Committees(BMC) across the State.
A unique feature of this programme will be some annual maintenance support to be provided to those who participate, in a reducing manner.
Talking to this journalist at the office of the GSBB at Saleigao in North Goa, Member Secretary of GSBB Dr. Pradip Sarmokadam said that the assistance for the participants/BMCs will be just a "hand-holding" and not grants.
"They can't depend on us. If this model works, I am quite sure the greenery what we commit will be sustainably existing for five years", he said, adding,"If for five years any fruit-bearing plantation can exist,it is a big thing.It will start giving its first fruits."
Apart from local fruit-bearing trees, there will be some costly saplings which could go beyond GSBB budget,like coconut,cashew,etc
The GSBB is almost in the final stage of preparing the programme whereby it intends to give one-time saplings or a support to develop a nursery of indigenous variety of unique fruit-bearing and other plants.
The people and organisations will do the planting and the local BMCS will audit it fir five years.
"In between there will be some financial support in a reducing method over five years as a hand-holding".They can't depend on us", says Member Secretary.
He opines that minimum 1 lakh sapling plantation target per annum they are proposing was really ambitious and a challenge as at present all departments taken together the government distributes around 40,000 to 50,000 saplings per annum.
He exudes confidence that audit by BMCs and hand-holding support would reduce the survivability gap to around 10%, as per their projection, contrary to present sapling plantation and afforestation programmes where this aspect does not get sufficient attention.
By working out functions like plant survival audit to them, the GSBB also wants to ensure that the BMCs do not become dormant.
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