Analysis of Constraints Pertaining to Tamilnadu Afforestation Project (Tap) in Dharmapuri District of Tamilnadu State

Tamilnadu Afforestation Project (TAP) is a project which ensures people's participation in improving the forest cover and bio-diversity. It is very important to find out the constraints pertaining to Tamilnadu Afforestation Project (TAP) and overcome these constraints which would otherwise counteract and collapse the very objectives of the project. This study was conducted in Krishnagiri taluk of Dharmapuri District of Tamilnadu state. The respondents were selected by using proportionate random sampling technique in and around the Krishnagiri taluk. The major constraints felt by the respondents were water scarcity to nurse the young saplings, lack of contact with higher officials, lack of agricultural and allied enterprises and lack of marketing facilities. The suggestions offered by the respondents to overcome these were more training to respondents in agricultural allied field, follow-up visit by forest personnel, increasing marketing facilities, strengthening of village forest councils and setting up of by product industries in the villages.