Factors affecting people’s participation in joint forest management programmes in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh, India

The present investigation examined the various factors affecting people's participation in the planning, implementation and maintenance of JFM programmes in the tribal distrct (Kinnaur) of Himachal Pradesh. In total, 10 factors were identified that influence people’s participation in Joint Forest Management (JFM) activities in the study area, which were independently affecting in all of three development blocks. District as a whole factors affecting in decreasing order were Lack of awareness about participatory forest management (66%), lack of co-ordination with forestry officials (64%), non availability of routine funds (56%), lack of training and visit programme (56%), clash between agriculture and JFM activities (54%), lack of emphasis on quick economic activities (49%), improper usufruct sharing (43%) etc. were some of major factors that influenced people’s participation. Policy and development emphasis on these factors, particularly taking into consideration the geography and need based activity in the various development blocks will increase the people’s participation in similar kind of projects

People’s participation in joint forest management in higher hills of Himachal Pradesh

Joint Forest Management (JFM) is an effort which involved people to participate for the protection, conservation and rehabilitation of forests whilst safeguarding the rights of forest dwellers. Women and other marginalized sections of the community need to be empowered to ensure their participation in JFM (Aggarwal and Chauhan, 2015). Such programmes while ensuring the conservation of flora and fauna, also provided stability for the agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry, and local cottage industries and thus, help in all round economic development (Bhatia, 2000). The present study analysed the people’s participation in different stages of JFM programmes in the higher hills of Himachal Pradesh (Sundernagar and Kullu forest division). The results showed that people of age group 40-60 years participated most in the JFM programme. The participation of the general category people was found highest followed by scheduled caste, other backward class and scheduled tribe. The literacy rate of the respondents was found to be 98.51 percent while the literacy index was found to be 2.51 representing level of education in between middle class and higher secondary. In both the regions participation of people was found maximum during maintenance stage followed by planning stage and implementation stage. The overall participation index was found to be 61.91 per cent. The capacity building through training and awareness can help in safeguarding livelihood and conservation efforts of JFM

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Not AvailableLilium is very important bulbous flower, cosmopolitan and has high demand in International flower market. Asiatic hybrid lily cultivars often have dark red spots on the interior surface of their petals. Pigments accumulated in petal spots are anthocyanins. In Lilium, the genetic basis of flower colour and spot formation are little understood because of the heterozygous genome structure. In this study 10 intravarietal Lilium hybrids along with their parents were tested and evaluated. The aim of this study was to estimate and analyse the flower colour of Asiatic Lilium hybrids. Highest value of anthocyanin was recorded in the hybrid PKLH-12 (43.48 mg/100g) and lowest in hybrid PKLH-6 (3.670 mg/100g). Anthocyanin content in the basal part was slightly higher (12.02 mg/100g) than the upper part (12.00mg/100g). Lilium petal during day of anthesis exhibits the highest amount of anthocyanin (13.96 mg/100g) than the 2 days after anthesis(10.05 mg/100g). Based on the variation in anthocyanin content in the present genotypes it may be concluded that this variability can be used for further development of indigenous hybrids with altered colours, hues, and patterns with long post harvest life. This study is important to understand the genetic basis of the traits and to apply molecular markers linked to map loci for MAS.Not Availabl