Social forestry is:

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. Social forestry in public and private sectors are:

   A. Accelerate amenity linear tree planting along all government roads, canals and railways
   B. Canal side plantations are more commercial than amenity
   C. Involve social institutions, NGOs and industries in amenity planting at public places like hospitals, schools
   D. All of the above

3. 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

4. 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

5. Definitions and concepts of agro-forestry is:

   A. Agro-forestry is a land-use system that involves socially and ecologically acceptable integration of tree with agricultural crops
   B. Agro-forestry is a sustainable land management system, which increases the overall yield of the land
   C. Both (a) & (b)
   D. None of these

6. Agro-forestry should be considered to be a generic term that embraces specific components.

   A. Agri-silviculture
   B. Silvopastoral
   C. Agrosilvopastoral
   D. All of the above

7. Components of an agro-forestry systems is:

   A. However, more than the simple amalgamation of farming and forestry as already stated
   B. It requires new management practices and technologies
   C. Which understand the complex interactions of the various components of the system
   D. All of the above

8. The terms used for various programmes of extending tree cover to non-forestry areas, used rather loosely in Indo-Pak subcontinent are:

   A. Social forestry, farm forestry, agroforestry
   B. Community forestry, environmental forestry, tree farming
   C. Forest farming, village woodlots, small-scale forestry
   D. All of the above

9. The National Forestry Committee, held on _______.

   A. 1972
   B. 1973
   C. 1974
   D. 1975

10. 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