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

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

CONCEPT

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

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

Break-up of workload for semester of 21 weeks

S No Activity Duration

1 Orientation 1week

2 Placement of Forest area 9weeks

3 Placement with KVK 1week

4 Placement with Industries 2weeks

5 All India Study Tour 3weeks

6 Report writing and written examination 2weeks

7 Weapon training 1week

8 Attachment with Forest department 2weeks

Placement areas

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

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

GIRTH AND LENGTH ESTIMATION OF LOGS

DOCUMENTATION OF SPECIES DIVERSITY

INTERACTION WITH FOREST DEPARTMENT STAFF

PRACTICAL ON WOOD WORKING MACHINES

PREPARATION OF BIO – FERTILIZER PITS

Planting of Melia dubia plants

Discussion with DCF, Dandeli

AIR QUALITY ASSESMENT IN MINING AREA IN CHITRADURGA

IDENTIFICATION OF ANIMAL SIGNS (PUG MARKS))

PRACTICAL ON INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEM MODEL

FOREST SURVEY PRACTICAL

Mensuration practical

LECTURE ON ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS TO SCHOOL CHILDREN

Discussion with Panchayat Members on Village Forest Committees and RD Programmes

WEAPON TRAINING AT DHARWAD