Revitalization of Rivers in India Draft Policy - Isha Guru Jaggi Vasudev

Revitalization of Rivers In India
Draft Policy Recommendation
researcher B.M. Kumar, “Homegardens resemble young secondary forests in
structure and biomass accumulation, and may be considered as a human-made
forest… with considerable productive potential.”
Tropical homegardens have a shared set of species, supplemented by regional
crops, and useful native plants. Food plants being the most important products,
homegardens also produce cash crops, medicinal, and other crops for materials,
chemicals and energy.
The complexity and the uniqueness of each garden has slowed adoption of
homegardens outside their core homelands, also hindered development efforts
to promote their spread, and has made it relatively difficult for researchers to
study them. Three priority areas have been identified to help realize the potential
of homegardens to sequester carbon and meet human needs in a sustainable
way: conserving existing homegardens; intensifying them by optimizing design,
management and species selection, and finally, bringing more lands into
homegardens.
Homegardens have not just been successful in the tropics, but also in humid
temperate and boreal regions, arid and semi-arid temperate regions, in
Mediterranean climates and arid tropics and subtropics.
NDHP CROPS
“Non-destructively harvested perennials” – plants that are not killed in
the process of harvesting. Combining perennial crops with no-till and nondestructive
harvest practices results in having plants that yield for many years
and hold the soil (and its carbon) in place. While the perennial crops that
probably come to mind for most people are those that provide fruits and perhaps
vegetables, many NDHP crops can provide staple foods such as protein, oil, and
carbohydrates. Others can replace petroleum for materials, chemicals, and,
although not remotely enough, energy to meet our current use. Management of
NDHP crops could be done according to their types.
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