Afforestation

a) MGNREGS

The objective of the scheme is to “enhance livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year, to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work".

MGNREGS is a demand driven bottom-up programme, the works under which are to be taken up as per the wage employment demanded by the people.

Forest department as part of convergence with MGNREGS is taking up raising & maintenance of nurseries, plantations and SMC works since 2009. Every year 6 to 7 crore seedlings of fodder, timber, shade giving plants are raised for distribution to the public.

b) National Afforestation Programme:

The objectives of the National Afforestation Programme (NAP) scheme are:

• Ecological restoration of degraded forests and improvement of quality of the existing forest.
• To develop the forest resources with peoples’ participation, with special focus on improvement in livelihoods of the forest-fringe communities, especially the poorest of poor.

NAP aims to support and accelerate the on-going process of devolving forest conservation, protection, management and development functions to the Joint Forest Management Committees (JFMCs) at the village level, which are registered societies.

c) National Green India Mission

The aim of the scheme is to respond to climate change by a combination of adaptation and mitigation measures, which would help:

• Enhance carbon sink
• Adaptation of vulnerable species/ecosystems to the changing climate
• Adaptation of forest-dependent communities.

The Objectives of the scheme are:

• Increase forest cover on 5 million hectares (mha) of forest/non-forest lands
• Improve quality of forest cover on another 5 mha
• Improve ecosystem services including biodiversity conservation, hydrological services, provisioning of fuel, fodder, timber and NTFP
• Forest-based livelihood income for about 3 million House Holds
• Enhance annual CO2 sequestration by 50-60 million MTs by 2020.

d) National medicinal Plants board:

The objective of the scheme are:

• Optimum utilization of degraded forest lands thereby increasing the vegetation cover and augmenting the resource base of medicinal plants and restoring the ecosystem.
• Providing wage employment to the people below the poverty line in the forest fringe areas thereby improving the income resources of FDAs and village development.

The expected outcomes are as follows:

• To enable Ayurvedic Medicinal manufacturing pharmacies to get adequate quantities of genuine raw materials to manufacture standard and efficacious medicines and prevent them from resorting to substitutes.
• To reduce pressure on wild population of medicinal plants growing in the forest, thereby conserving the indigenous plant wealth.
• These plantations will serve as seed stands which can ensure future seed supply and can act as a future germ plasm security.

e) Nagaravan- Udyan Yojana (Ek Kadam HariyaliKi) / Nagarvanam:

The aim of the scheme is to provide wholesome living environment to urban areas and thereby contributing to create smart, clean, green and healthy cities. During 2016-17 Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Government of India, New Delhi have conceptualized the programme for climate smart green cities by name Nagarvan – Udyan Yojana (Ek Kadam Hariyaliki) to develop/create at least one city Forest in each city over an extent of 25 ha. – 100 ha. within the adjacent Forest areas.

In continuation of the Nagarvan Udyan Yojana Scheme, State Govt. of Andhra Pradesh has taken initiative for further development of Nagaravanams across the state as urban lung spaces and started a new scheme called “Nagaravanam” as state development programme.

There are twenty three (23) Nagaravanams in the state are as under:

Sl. no	Circle	District	Division	Nagaravanam Location
1	Ananthapur	Ananthapur	Ananthapur	Rayadurgam
2				Kalyandurgam
3				Puttaparthi
4				Pampanuru
5				Hindupur
6		Chittoor (W)		Palamaneru
7	Guntur	Guntur	Guntur	Kondaveedu
8				Perecherla
9		Prakhasam	Giddaluru	Darsi-I
10				Darsi-II
11				Perlavanipalem
12		Nellore	Nellore	Naidupeta
13				Kotturu
14	Kurnool	Kadapa	Kadapa	Potlampally
15		Kurnool	Kurnool	Gargeyapuram
16				Dhone
17	Rajahmundry	Krishna	Vijayawada	Kothuru–Tadepalli
18				Krishnalanka
19				Butterfly Park
20		East Godavari	Kakinada	Diwancheruvu
21	Tirupathi	Chittoor (E)	Tirupathi	Divyaramam
22				RS Park
23	Visakhapatnam	Vizainagaram	Vizainagaram	Saripalli
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Four more Nagarvanam have been approved by the Govt. of India during the year 2020-21.

f) 09-Mixed plantations:

• 09-Mixed plantation is instrumental in achieving the goal of increasing the green cover in the state, with special focus on taking up plantations outside the notified forest areas.
• Under Mixed plantations activities like raising of Nurseries, Village woodlots, shelter belt plantations, Mangrove plantation, Seed dibbling and Awareness programmes have been taken up.

g) Sub-Mission on Agro Forestry:

Under the scheme cash assistance will be provided to the farmers for raising trees in their farm lands. The objective of the scheme are:

• To encourage and expand tree plantation in complementary and integrated manner with crops and livestock to improve productivity, employment opportunities, income generation and livelihoods of rural households, especially the small farmers.
• To ensure availability of quality planting material like seeds, seedlings, clones, hybrids, improved varieties, etc
• To popularize various Agroforestry practices/models suitable to different agro-ecological regions and land use conditions.

h) Miscellaneous schemes:

Raising of plantations with funds provided by other agencies like National High way Authority of India, Indian Railways, Urban local bodies, VUDA, NTPC, Special development packages under district administration funds etc have been taken up.