Panaji: After Kerala and Uttarakhand, Goa has a stock of highest growth per hectare in the country, in accordance with the Indian Forest Report (ISFR) 2021 from the Indian forest survey.
Great Stock refers to the volume of all trees that live in certain wooded areas, and stocks that are increasingly high per hectare show very sustainable and productive forests.
Higher growth per hectare also shows forests providing good ecosystem services in acting as carbon sinks.
This is also a forest of higher economic value.
The volume of trees that lived in the cave forest per hectare almost doubled the national figure.
“It was observed that stock growth at the national level was estimated at 56.6 cubic M per hectare,” the ISFR 2021 report said.
Among the countries, the highest growth per hectare in the forest is in Kerala (139.3 per HA) followed by Uttarakhand (105.5 per HA) and Goa (101.2 per ha).
Among UTS, the highest growth of per ha in Ladakh, followed by the Jammu & Kashmir and A & N islands, “in the existing climate change scenario, the estimated stock growth has assumed significance as a policy maker for strategic planning and management of forest and forest resources Sustainable.
The ISFR 2021 report has indicated that by 2030, 671 Km square or nearly 30% of the forest and cover of goa trees it is likely to experience ‘high’ severity of climate change.
This means the temperature is estimated to rise 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius In the state, while there will be a variation of 20 to 26% in the rainfall pattern.
In this scenario, the volume of cave volume growth shows that the state forest is equally effective with carbon sinking today.
According to the ISFF report, Goa has 25.3 million tons of carbon stocks In the forest.
“Forests play an important role in mitigation and adaptation to climate change.
Forest is considered a reservoir, sink and carbon source.
Forests sequester and save more carbon than other terrestrial ecosystems and act as ‘brakes’ natural in climate change.
The diversity of forests in India makes it an effective carbon sink, “said the Indian report forest survey.