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Farm level tree planting in Pakistan: The role of farmers' perceptions and attitudes

The low proportion of forested land and continuing degradation of existing forest cover are serious threats to the sustainability of forestry in Pakistan. Farm forestry has been identified as a feasible solution, particularly in the plain areas. Applying the Theory of Planned Behaviour in a survey of 124 farmers in Dera Ismail Khan district of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province showed that farmers' willingness to grow trees on their farms is a function of their attitudes towards the advantages and disadvantages of growing trees, their perception of the opinions of salient referents and factors that encourage and discourage farm level tree planting. Farmers viewed farm forestry as economically beneficial and environmentally friendly. Tree planting was perceived as increasing income, providing wood for fuel and furniture, controlling erosion and pollution and providing shade for humans and animals. Farmers saw hindrance in agricultural operations and the harbouring of insects, pests and diseases as negative impacts of tree planting; however, these were outweighed by their perceptions of positive impacts. Tree growing decisions of farmers were influenced by the opinions of family members, owners/tenants, fellow farmers and village elders. The factors that significantly predicted farm level tree planting were availability of barren land, lack of markets, lack of nurseries and damage caused by animals and humans. Farm forestry programmes are more likely to be successful if they acknowledge and address the factors which underlie farmers' reasons for planting or not planting trees.

G00-1417 Site Preparation: Key to Successful Conservation Tree Planting in Western Nebraska (Revised February 2002)

Establishing a conservation tree planting can be a challenge in semiarid regions like western Nebraska, where annual precipitation of 20 inches or less is the norm. Tree planting failure commonly occurs as a result of poor site preparation coupled with inadequate weed and grass control the first three to five years after planting. Effective site preparation begins the year before planting. The results help young trees survive and grow in several ways. This NebGuide explains when and how to do site preparation for conservation tree planting in Western Nebraska.

Friends of the Maxwell Arboretum Tree Planting

"Each generation takes the earth as trustees," J. Sterling Morton, founder of Arbor Day, once said, adding, "We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed."

Arbor day : its history, observance, spirit and significance ; with practical selections on tree-planting and conservation, and a nature anthology /

Mode of access: Internet.

Possibilities of shelterbelt planting in the plains region. A study of tree planting for protective and ameliorative purposes as recently begun in the shelterbelt zone of North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas by the Forest service; together with information as to climate, soils, and other conditions affecting land use and tree growth in the region.

On cover: Issued under special allotment to the Plains shelterbelt project, U.S. Forest service.

The Tree-planting division: its history and work,

At head of title: Dept. of the interior, Canada. Forestry branch.

Cooling our communities : a guidebook on tree planting and light-colored surfacing /

Mode of access: Internet.

Forest tree planting manual for Illinois : a manual dealing with the distribution and planting of forest tree seedlings for the production of timber crops and for the conservation of soil, water, and wildlife in Illinois.

Subtitle varies slightly.

Trees, prairies, and people : a history of tree planting in the Plains States /

Bicentennial project of the Texas Woman's University and Forest Service, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture."

Tree planting on streets and highways,

Mode of access: Internet.

English trees and tree-planting,

Mode of access: Internet.