MEDIA RELEASE| Mapping agroforestry and trees outside forest in India
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New Delhi, India, 13 May 2020 — A new book, Mapping agroforestry and trees outside forest, was launched on 4 May 2020 by Trilochan Mohapatra, secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education and director-general, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Government of India during an online meeting with 12 CGIAR centres operating in India.
‘This publication compiles the joint efforts of ICAR’s Central Agroforestry Research Institute and ICRAF to harmonize terminologies, definitions and techniques used to map trees outside forests or agroforestry; and development of a geospatial methodology to map a particular agroforestry tree species,’ said Mohapatra. ‘The information provided in the book is easy to understand and implement by promoters of agroforestry’.
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