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Author(s)
Mohammad Abdul Aariff Khan and Ambapurkar Krishna
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DOI:10.17265/2161-6264/2017.05.008
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AICRP on Agroforestry, Rajendranagar, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad 500030, TS, India
ABSTRACT
In newly developed
agro-biodiversity park, several plantation
blocks were developed in phased manner, such as teak (2,200 plants in 2.2
ha), mahuva (1,500, 1.5 ha) plant
dominant community blocks and mixed forest tree block (4,600, 2.5 ha).
Besides, a separate generic blocks of, viz., palm (300, 0.4 ha), medicinal trees (700,
0.7 ha), bael (Aegel marmelos) (200, 0.4 ha) and
minor fruit tree block (1,200, 1.0 ha). A
species diversity Ficus block (225 no.
of 30 species in 0.4 ha)
was also developed and maintained. Of late rare, endemic, endangered and threatened species Ceropegia (Asclepiadaceae) was
identified in 2014. Since then, utmost care was taken for conservation and
preservation in agro-biodiversity park. Every year during monsoon, the gap filling was
done to maintain greenery in different block plantations. Water ponds and
bodies were also created as a source of water for all resident and migratory
bio-creatures for
promotion of fauna genetic resources. The natural fauna present in agro-biodiversity park are
wild boars, field rabbits, small mammalians, field peacocks, reptiles, lizards,
avians, amphibians, toads, etc.. Besides, 24 species of
insects, five species of fish and eight species of reptiles
were recorded. Out of 120 species of butterflies present in the state, 56 were found in the park.
The bird species increased from 35 to 172 species within eight years of
duration. The creation of different plantation blocks has facilitated to
increase flora and fauna in the park. The native flora and fauna were protected by
erecting chain link mesh as border fencing against movement of trespass and
livestock animals. The agro-biodiversity park was aimed mainly to preserve, conserve and promote the native flora and
fauna through ex-situ conservation of
species and to establish 15-20 biotic communities, including wild relative field crops, such as cereals, millets, pulses, oilseeds and fiber crops as a repository that
flourished in the Deccan plateau in the past. The other objectives were to restore and
develop the existing dry land and wet land habit to preserve and conserve the
genetic resources.
KEYWORDS
Agro-biodiversity, native flora and fauna, conservation.
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