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Plantations Benefits
ITC PSPD's Plantations
  • Over 100, 000 hectares greened till 2009
  • More than 419 million saplings planted
  • Creating over 43 million person days of employement
  • Helping increase farmers' incomes
  • Helping ITC sequester more carbon than its operations emit
The benefits of our plantations activities extend beyond procuring consistent, high-quality pulp for our operations.
These plantations allow farmers to convert previously unusable land into a source of income - while at the same time conferring the many environmental benefits that come with greening of the lands.

The benefits derived from plantations accrue at many levels - societal, environmental, and business.

Societal Gains

Our Plantations programme has introduced an alternative means of livelihood for the rural community. Through this, plantations are playing an increasingly important role in rural economic development and poverty alleviation in company's catchment area.The average net income to a farmer from clonal plantations is about US$ 500 /ha/yr under rain-fed condition and US $ 800/ha/yr with irrigation on a four-year rotation cycle. This is significantly higher compared to traditional crops grown in the operational area and at much lower risks.

The impact of clonal technology can be measured from the fact that since 1992 when a meager 24 hectares was under cultivation - the situation has drastically changed in 2009, with over a 100,000 hectares having been greened. These plantations provide 46 million person days of employment from tasks such as nursery, planting, logging and maintenance operations. Social and farm forestry have already contributed greatly to rural livelihood and created more jobs for local people.
  • Till 2009, our farm and social forestry programmes have resulted in the planting of 419 million saplings covering an area of 102,718 hectares.
  • The asset in the form of wood generated, amounts to US$ 609 million - creating employment potential for 46 million person days over the harvest cycle of four years.
  • The productivity of clonal plantations is 20 to 58 MT/ha/yr depending upon edapho-climatic conditions which is 3 to 6 times higher compared to ordinary seed origin (6 to 10 MT/ha/yr) plantations.
  • An area of 3070 hectares has been registered with the UNFCC as a CDM project. This project generates 57791 CERs annually. The benefits of this project will be distributed amongst the 3398 tribal beneficiaries, after accounting for costs.
  • Small and large water-harvesting structures were built to provide critical irrigation to nearly 46000 ha by 916 water user groups involving 46000 beneficiaries. The company contributes 75% of the cost while the water user groups are mobilizing balance 25%.

Environmental Gains

ITC PSPD's PlantationsClonal plantations have been able to mitigate environmental degradation on a large scale. Apart from other well-known consequences of such a large-scale greening efforts, these plantations raised for the last 18 years have the potential to sequester 7.61 MMT of carbon, reducing 30.44 MMT CO2.
By promoting plantations on such a large scale, the project has increased the green cover in the country.

Clonal plantations directly contribute to in-situ moisture conservation, groundwater recharge and significant reduction in topsoil losses due to wind and water erosion and help in conservation of natural forest resources. Equally, as a result of the leaf-litter from multi-species plantations and the promotion of leguminous inter-crops between rows, depleted soil is getting constantly enriched, making the farmlands more productive. In the near future, the increase in soil fertility will lead to a decline in fertiliser and pesticide consumption, thus reducing the pollution of groundwater sources due to leaching of chemicals into soil.
 
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