Forest՚s Carbon, Thikri-Pehra, Micro Level Forecasts and Urbanization Policy (DTE 16 - 30 June 2020)
Forest՚s Carbon Stock down
- Total carbon stock in global forests decreased to 662 gigatonnes in 2020 from 668 gigatonnes in 1990.
- The carbon density has increased to 163 tonnes⟋ha from 159 tonnes⟋ha.
Thikri-Pehra (Community Policing)
- Farmers in Punjab and Haryana related to turmeric farming took to the old age initiative of thikri pehra (community policing) .
- This was done to check the movement of the people due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- This move is expected to ease the pressure on the police keeping the diseases away.
- Earlier more than 40,000 Turmeric farmers in the Kandhamal district of Odisha faced lockdown brunt.
Micro Level Forecasts Impossible
- The meteorological department has been criticized for not issuing warnings about delayed rains that led to the loss of Rabi crops.
- Forecasting of extreme and unusual weather events on a micro scale allowing sufficient time to take action at the farm level is impossible.
- The farmers should be advised to harvest crops as soon as they are ripe enough.
- The state agricultural department has a bigger role to play- a more feasible and important than that of the weather forecaster.
Urbanization Policy Needs to Be Reviewed
- The overpopulated country like India needs to be judiciously dispersed in relation to its home and place of work.
- Threatening migrant problems can be avoided:
- People needs to be resettled in and around workplaces.
- Providing equitable wages near their existing homes.
- Social cost of urbanization for absorbing jobs has become counterproductive.
- Pandemic and disaster-related migration has become a source for inter-state acrimony.
✍Examrace Team at Aug 21, 2021