Abstract
An area of 2,732 ha. forest land and 12,926 ha. of cultivable and wastelands of 193 villages were surveyed for the enumeration of standing growing stock under different GBH classes (cm) at Top Canopy Level (TCL) in the submergence areas of Sardar Sarovar Dam Project (SSP) in M.P.
As a result of enumeration at TCL in forest areas, a total of 1,49,900 trees under different GBH Classes like 21/30 (1,03,161), 31/45 (14,380), 46/60 (12,083), 61/90 (12,596), 91/120 (5,301), 121/150 (1,518) and over 150 (861) have been recorded. Whereas in 193 submergence village areas about 2,46,306 trees of above GBH Class represents 71,011; 61,544; 51,022; 37,449; 15,161; 6,303; and 3,818 respectively.
The volume m³ has also been calculated as Teak 1,255.45 m³ (1.262/ha.), other Timber species 868.987 m³ (0.873/ha.) in Jhabua Division and 33.60 m³ (0.062/ha.) in Dhar Division and other species 4,436.383 m³ (4.459/ha.) in Jhabua and 4,296.35 m³ (7.926/ha.) in Dhar. Basal area sq.m in per hectare area has been also found out 1.1815 and 1.2134 in Jhabua and Dhar Forest Divisions for all species.
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