Quiet Crisis in the Himalayas: Preliminary Draft

action activities agencies Agricultural Development Agro-Economic animal husbandry appropriate technology area under forests Average basic resources benefit cent climate Commission on Agriculture Community Forestry cropped area cultivation damage degradation Delhi density ecological economic incentives effects efficiency environment environmental extent external farmers farming systems fodder forest areas forest land fuel future grass grazing growth centres hectare High Yielding Varieties Himachal Pradesh University human HYV's implementation improve increase India intensity interest J. P. Bhati labour levels limited livestock lopping ment multiple use management natural resources orly Panchayati Raj Paonta Valley pastures planning population density preservation problems production programme range land requires Research Centre resource conservation run-off rural areas rural industrial Sainwala Village sectors simla Sirmur social cost Social Forestry soil erosion strategy Swarup timber tion Tooni total area trees Tural United Nations utilization Watershed Management Western Himalayan Region Wheat York