(POFFENBERGER AND SINGH, 1996)
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Product Rights |
Responsibilities |
Participants |
Restrictions |
Tenure Rights |
National |
Community should share in usufruct grasses, fuelwood, timber (25%) |
No grazing; no agriculture; promote stall feeding, |
exclusively to village community; no individual agreements |
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No ownership or rights |
Rajasthan |
All NTFP (except bamboo), 60% of net timber to be reinvested |
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Registered society; revenue village based |
Control grazing, illegal felling, fires, encroachment |
Not specified; maximum of 50 ha per group |
Orissa |
Subsistence timber/fuel free- not for sale |
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FPC-panchayat based; 8 + member of village panchayat |
Same as above + distribution to villages |
Not specified |
Gujarat |
All NTFP; 25% of GFD timber and 80 % of timber from other sources |
Regenerate and develop degraded forest land; no agriculture or grazing |
Village communities, panchayat, society or informal groups; all families |
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No lease or ownership rights; joint management agreement |
West Bengal |
25 % of timber net after minimum 5 year protection; all NTFP |
Protect forests against fires, encroachment, cutting |
Community-based FPC under panchayat broad based land management committee |
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10-year rotation with possible extension |
Haryana |
25% of net timber; first priority to HRMS vested after 3 years; all NTFP except fodder and fibre lease |
Protect, manage, plan development and accounts, form rules and regulations |
Registered society revenue village or community with revenue village area if other villages agree; all households male and female heads |
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Not specified except 1-year lease on fibre and fodder bamboo area; HRMS first choice |
Bihar |
Dry leaves, branches, and grasses for free subsistence; not for sale |
Establish rules for forest protection and enforcement; help organize forest labour; meet regularly distribute produce |
village development committee; all members of 1 or more villages with tribal representation |
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2 years, then new committee is formed |
NTFP: Non-timber forest product; GFD: Government forest department; HRMS: Haryana resource management societies; FPC: Forest protection committee.