Joint forest management: a case study in Keonjhar district of Odisha

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dc.contributor.advisorNayak, Hiranmayee
dc.contributor.authorSethi, Amiya Kumar
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-11T07:38:40Z
dc.date.available2024-11-11T07:38:40Z
dc.date.issued2022-06-29
dc.description.abstractIn keeping view the importance of JFM study, a systematic research was taken in Telkoi and Banspal Block of Keonjhar district of Odisha, which entitled “Joint Forest Management: A Case Study in Keonjhar District of Odisha” during 2021-22. For this research different objectives were taken i.e. to study the structure and function of JFM committee of Keonjhar District, to find out livelihood dependency of JFM villages and to study the socio-economic status of JFM based villages. A total of 100 respondents were chosen randomly from two blocks and ten villages to participate in the experiment. Pre-structured questionnaires, personal interviews, secondary information and group discussions with villagers were used to collect data and statistically analysis done. The study area revealed that the JFM committee member ranges between 15-20 among them at least half of the member were women. A Forester or a Forest guard must serve as secretary of this committee. The forest department formed VSS with the collaboration of forest fringe villagers for implementation of JFM programme and perform various responsibilities to ensure sustainable forest management as well as to address their daily needs in order to maintain their livelihood. In the research area, it was found that majority of respondents were between the ages of 18 to 40 (44%) indicating that young people of most of the families were involved in NTFPs collection. From this the schedule tribe involvement was highest since they live in close proximity to the forest and rely on the forest for their survival and livelihood. Agriculture is the most important activity followed by NTFPs collection and livestock rearing for their livelihood as majority of the people owned their own farm land and during off season they depends on the forest and worked as labour in JFM activities as well. People living around the forest worked 211 days in a year in various income generating activities like agriculture, NTFPs collection, labour (wage earning), family occupation etc. More than half of the people have kutcha and semi-pucca house due to their poor financial condition in the study area most of the respondent had nuclear family (64%) due to fact that tribal people prefer nuclear family as they have lower income. Factors influencing the share on NTFP income were determined by correlation and regression analysis. Agriculture provided most employment i.e. 30.81% followed by NTFPs collection (25.12%), labour (wage earning) (22.27%), family occupation (9.01%), livestock rearing (5.68%) and others like service (7.11%). Agriculture (Rs 12749.18) contributed the most to the overall income of the respondents followed by NTFPs collecting (Rs 8370.50), labour (Rs 4038.63), family occupation (Rs 1390.34), livestock rearing (Rs 1917.12) and other sector (Rs 3814.10). The largest net return obtained from the NTFPs like sal leaves (Rs 2542/-) followed by siali leaves (Rs 1820/-), Cane culm (Rs 1592.50/-), mahua (Rs 190/-), honey (Rs 378/-), sal seeds (Rs 384/-), mushroom (Rs 180/-), amla (Rs 250/-), harida (Rs 157/-) tamarind (Rs 270/-), char (Rs 270/-) and bahada (Rs 82.50/-). The percentage contribution of various NTFPs to net return are Sal leaves generated 30.37 % followed by siali leaves (21.74 %), cane culms (19.02 %), mahua (2.26 %), honey (4.52 %), sal seeds (4.58 %), mushroom (2.15 %), amla (2.98 %), harida (1.88 %), bahada (1.00 %), tamarind (6.28%) and char (3.22%). Interpretation of correlation showed that age is significantly and positively correlated with marital status (0.506**), livelihood (0.270*). Marital status was found to be significant and positively correlated with employment status (0.225*) and negatively correlated with literacy (-0.234*), family type (-0.455**) and family member (-0.248*) respectively. literacy was found to be statistically and positively correlated with family type (0.293*), family member (0.446**),employment status (0.205*) and livelihood (0.241*). Likewise family type was found to be positively correlated with family member (0.212*), land holding (0.264**) and marketing (0.222*) respectively. Family member is positively associated with land holding (0.243*) and land holding is also positively correlated with house type (0.253*). The correlation value between house type and employment status was found to be 0.486** which was found to be statistically significant. Livelihood is significantly and positively correlated with annual income (0.319**) and employment status (0.533**).Regression analysis showed that annual income was mainly affected by socio-economic variables like livelihood. The R Square value i.e. 0.456 of the model summery represented that overall contribution of socio economic variable to the annual income is 45.60% which concluded that various factors i.e. illiteracy, exhaustive work, lack of support from Govt. and awareness prevented them to participate in JFM programme.
dc.identifier.urihttps://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810216218
dc.keywordsJointforest management
dc.keywordsKeonjhar
dc.keywordsNTFPs collection
dc.keywordsSocio-economic variables
dc.keywordsR Square
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.pagesxiii, 90p.
dc.publisherDepartment of Forest Business Management, OUAT, Bhubaneswar
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTHM-6758
dc.research.problemJoint forest management: a case study in Keonjhar district of Odisha
dc.subForest Business Management
dc.themeJoint forest management
dc.these.typeM.Sc
dc.titleJoint forest management: a case study in Keonjhar district of Odisha
dc.typeThesis
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