{"id":2993,"date":"2009-12-24T14:09:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T18:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2009-12-24T14:09:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T18:09:49","slug":"orissa-plans-to-set-up-a-forest-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/2993","title":{"rendered":"Orissa plans to set up a forest academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following is an excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptinews.com\/news\/439066_Orissa-to-set-up-Forest-Academy\" target=\"_self\">a PTI news report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Orissa government today said it would set up a Forest Academy and expedite the process of giving forest land rights to people living in jungles.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The Forest Academy will train officials in forest management and protect wild life with more professionalism,&quot; Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said at a conference of Divisional Forest Officers (DFO) here.<\/p>\n<p>He said Orissa has 20 lakh hectares of poorly managed and degraded forests. Restoration of tree cover and increased vegetation on these degraded forests would make the government&#8217;s anti-poverty programmes successful.<\/p>\n<p>The forest department had drawn up a plan for the next five years to give forest cover to ten lakh hectares of land.<\/p>\n<p>Farm forestry and agro forestry had huge potential to improve the income of households, he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is an excerpt from a PTI news report. The Orissa government today said it would set up a Forest Academy and expedite the process of giving forest land rights to people living in jungles. &quot;The Forest Academy will train officials in forest management and protect wild life with more professionalism,&quot; Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orissa-govt-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}