RURAL FORESTRY WORK EXPERIENCE (RFWF – 401) COLLEGE OF FORESTRY, SIRSI

1. RURAL FORESTRY WORK EXPERIENCE (RFWF – 401) COLLEGE OF FORESTRY, SIRSI

2. CONCEPT • Forestry education is an important tool in ensuring incarcerated forest productivity, sustainability, environmental and ecological security, profitability, job security and equity • Thus, RAWE is a learner centered approach of exposing students using principles of “Learning By Doing” and to provide direction to think and act on their own. • The learning process imparts a direction to the students to think and act which creates self- confidence. Self confidence is the key in rural practical oriented learning • It offers a direction to the students to develop their competence, capability and ability, capacity building, acquiring skills and expertise in addition to personality development. • RAWE is one of the best means to produce well trained, forestry graduates with broad based knowledge and techniques to meet the emerging challenges of the industries and development departments

3. About RFWE • RFWE Course is offered in the 7th Semester of B.Sc(For) degree Programme • Duration of RFWE is of six months duration • No of credits for RFWE is 20. • So far 238 students have participated and completed the course • The result is evaluated on 10 point scale

5. Components of RFWE • Forest Stay and Eco – Tourism 0+9 • Wild Life Management 0+1 • Placement with Forest Dept/KVK/Research Stations 0+2 • Placement with Forest based Industries 0+2 • Placement with Plantation Farmers/Entrepreneurs/NGOs 0+2 • Forest Entrepreneurship Development 0+1 • All India Study Tour 0+2 • Weapon Training 0+1

6. Break-up of workload for semester of 21 weeks

7. Placement areas • SFTC Tattihalla • Kulagi • Anasi • Prabhunagar • Ambewadi • ARS, Malagi • West Coast Paper Mills Dandeli • Sesa-Goa Mining area • Nagara Hole

8. Important innovations/technologiesintroduced as part of RAWE • Agro Forestry systems • Cultivation of Medicinal plants • Identification of birds, trees. • Assessing impact of JFPM on livelihood of farm families • Integrated pest and disease management • Mushroom cultivation • Vermicompost preparation, use of bio fertilizers • Raising and plantation seedling nursery

9. GIRTH AND LENGTH ESTIMATION OF LOGS

10. DOCUMENTATION OF SPECIES DIVERSITY

11. INTERACTION WITH FOREST DEPARTMENT STAFF

12. PRACTICAL ON WOOD WORKING MACHINES

13. PREPARATION OF BIO – FERTILIZER PITS

14. Planting of Meliadubia plants

15. Discussion with DCF, Dandeli

16. AIR QUALITY ASSESMENT IN MINING AREA IN CHITRADURGA

17. IDENTIFICATION OF ANIMAL SIGNS (PUG MARKS))

18. PRACTICAL ON INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEM MODEL

19. FOREST SURVEY PRACTICAL

20. Mensuration practical

21. LECTURE ON ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS TO SCHOOL CHILDREN

22. Discussion with Panchayat Members on Village Forest Committees and RD Programmes

23. WEAPON TRAINING AT DHARWAD