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Creating
Livelihoods
ITC’s Social and Farm Forestry programmes generate
significant employment opportunities for the rural poor. The development of high-yielding
clones for plantations and afforestation involves a host of employment intensive
activities like:
- Raising and maintaining gene banks
- Sapling production in various nurseries and their
transportation to the field for planting
- Land preparation for planting
- Planting operations like alignment,
pitting, levelling and fencing
- Weeding, tending, soil working and intercropping.
As at March 2005, ITC’s Forestry programmes covered
over 29,230 hectares of land, with resultant employment opportunities generated for over
290,000 rural poor.
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