Write a short note on the Joint Forest Management Programme.

(l) Joint Forest Management Programme has been started involving local communities in the, management and restoration of degraded forests.
(ii) In 1988, the state of Orissa passed the first resolution for joint forest management.
(iii) Under this programme local or village institutions undertake protection activities on degraded forest land managed by the forest department.
(iv) Local communities get benefits like non-timber forest produces and share in the timber harvested by “successful protection”. The JFM programme shows that the local communities should be involved everywhere in the natural resource management.