Essential ingredients for the success of community forestry are:

Related Mcqs:

1. Due to modification of the environment by the plant community itself, when one community is replaced by another suitable community, the succession is called:

   A. Induced
   B. Deflated
   C. Allogenic
   D. Autogenic

2. Agro-forestry and social forestry concept is:

   A. An inter-disciplinary approach to systems of land use
   B. It implies an awareness of interactions and feedback between man and environment
   C. Between demand and available resources in a given area
   D. Which – under certain conditions – require optimization and sustained management rather that ever-increasing exploitations
   E. All of the above

3. The main problems faced in implementing community forestry are:

   A. Villagers feel apprehensive of the programme, which they feel is another version of taking away their land by the government
   B. Programme needs community’s voluntary cooperation and cannot be imposed on it
   C. Programme should be based on the trust and confidence on both sides
   D. Alternate employment opportunities made available locally reduce pressures on forests
   E. All of the above

4. According to Jeff Romm (1980) which are essentials for the community forestry programme are:

   A. The technology must be more suitable and available and must be more productive and ecologicallly sustainable than that already in use
   B. The villagers must feel secured of the benefits
   C. New uses of the land and other resources must be profitable from the villager’s point of view
   D. Perception of such benefits is more fundamental to promised incentives
   E. All of the above

5. Benefits of social forestry are:

   A. Betterment of environment
   B. Reduction of pollution
   C. Protection from wind, conservation of moisture
   D. Reduction of moisture
   E. All of the above

6. Use oriented forestry are:

   A. Industrial forestry
   B. Energy forestry
   C. Both (a) & (b)
   D. None of these

7. Urban forestry is:

   A. It is specialized branch of forestry that has as its objective the cultivation and management of trees for their present
   B. Potential contribution to the physiological, socio-logical and economic wellbeing of urban society
   C. Both (a) & (b)
   D. None of these

8. Social forestry means:

   A. It is forestry of people by the people and for the people
   B. The forestry in which the efforts aimed at raising and managing trees for the benefits of rural people
   C. Both (a) & (b)
   D. None of these

9. Social forestry is:

   A. With the renewed interest in the role of trees for environmental conservation
   B. For meeting the day-to-day needs of the people in respect of various forest produce much has been written on the subject
   C. Both (a) & (b)
   D. None of these

10. Forestry research and education to:

    A. Upgrade training facilities to expand and improve forestry education and to cater to the future requirements of trained personnel in the relevant fields of specialisation
    B. Integrate forestry education in the Pakistan Forest Institute with the university system
    C. Encourage induction of women into the forestry profession through training programmes
    D. All of the above