• Dr. Dani Kacha

Sustainable development in agriculture is closely connected with the development of forestry in a hilly state of Arunachal Pradesh where around 61.5 percent of geographical area is under the forest coverage based on satellite imagery. Forest may be regarded as capital stocks which yielded two distinct forms of private and public goods. The private goods like fuel woods, timber, house building materials, other minor forest produce, etc. However, there is a conflict between these two types of goods. Given the quantum of forests, greater the extraction of private goods, the less will be the availability of public goods in the form of environmental benefits. So, a compromise has to be brought between the demand for private goods and that of public goods from the forests for balanced and sustainable socio-economic development of Arunachal Pradesh with the help of effective forestry planning in Arunachal Pradesh. In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyse the relationship between the development of agriculture and forest and its contribution to state’s economy on the basis of secondary data. Arunachal Pradesh is situated in the extreme North-East part of India. Geographically the state lies between 26o 28’N to 29o 38’ N latitudes and 91o 30’E to 97o 30’ E longitudes with total area of 83,743 km2. It is the largest state among the North-Eastern States consisting of about 2.55 per cent of the total geographical area of the country. The State of Arunachal Pradesh has common international boundary with China in the North and North-East (1,080 km), Myanmar in the East (440 km) and Bhutan in the West (160 km). It also shares a common boundary with Nagaland in the East and South-East and Assam in the South. Greater portion of the state falls in the outer Himalayas and Patkai range. The innumerable rivers and streams in the state flow into the Bramaputra river in Assam. The major rivers of the state are Kameng, Subansiri, Siang, Lohit, Diyum and Dihang. Geologically the state consists of mainly shale, schist and conglomerates of the Himalayan system and is comprised of mountainous territory, situated on the South slopes of the Eastern Himalayas. Out of the total geographical area of nearly 83,745 sq.km of Arunachal Pradesh, 51340 sq.km is estimated to be under forests. However, as per the recent estimate of the Forest Survey of India based on satellite imagery, forest area in the state is about 68,661 sq. km (6725 sq. km as per 2012 census) which constitutes nearly 80.99 percent of the total area of the State. The detailed classification of forests in Arunachal Pradesh is shown in Table-1

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY PLANNING IN ARUNACHAL PRADESH

"SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY PLANNING IN ARUNACHAL PRADESH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 4, page no.e751-e755, April-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2204500.pdf

"SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY PLANNING IN ARUNACHAL PRADESH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 4, page no. ppe751-e755, April-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2204500.pdf