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Forests provide society with benefits like wood products, annual products and environmental protection, catchment protection, nature conservation, climatic amelioration etc. Due to increased population, there is heavy pressure on the needs of the society. The majority of the agricultural families maintain large herds of cattle, sheep and goats because their income is augmented marginally by the production of cattle population and also cattle dung manure. Most of their cattle, sheep and goats depend on forests in the fringes of the villages. Even today people staying in forest fringe villages have the practice of using fuel wood for cooking and other purposes. Apart from these requirements, people have to depend upon the forests for agricultural implements, fencing, handicrafts and building materials. As a consequence of practicing age old agriculture cropping pattern, forests have to bear the brunt of an ever increasing demand for wood, fuel wood and grazing which cause great damage to the existing forests. Hence, agro-forestry was considered to be adopted by the poor farmers to meet the requirements of people and species like Melia dubia is being promoted which is fast growing and can fulfill their needs such as timber, fuel wood and also fodder thereby farmers become self-reliant and economically stable. Apart from these benefits, the cultivation of Melia dubia increases the organic matter content of soil due to accumulation of litter which in turn enhances soil fertility. Farmers in Karnataka have of late started growing Melia dubia, silver oak, Gmelina arboria in their farm lands to fulfill their livelihood needs and contributing to increasing the green cover. Thus growing Melia dubia stands as an unique model in most the southern part of Karnataka and can be adopted as short rotation tree cultivation else where under similar condition The farmers of Karnataka harvest timber at 10-12 years of rotation, after obtaining permission from the Karnataka Forest Department. And they have made an appeal to make these fast growing high yielding agro forestry trees free from hassles of transmit permits. Most of the farmers have used timber for their own requirement and the excess only is sold in local market. Current market rate is Rs. 5000 to 6000 (average Rs 5000 per Tree). An average, a tree produces about 14 cft of timber at 10-12 years fetching about Rs. 5000 per tree or Rs.500 Tree/year. The density of 81 trees Iha at 80 % survival rate under bund planting at 4 m spacing produced 1,134 cft of wood fetching Rs. 25 Lakhs to 35 lakhs- after 10-12 years rotation under routine rough methods of silvicultural operations. A decade back during 2007, a study conducted by GKVK under National Afforestation and Eco Development Board, about Cultivation of Melia dubia on Farms Lands in Karnataka under teh leadership of Dr D Nuthan, KM Chandra Shekhar Reddy, Sunil Kumar, SN Vajranabhaiah and TD Yogeesha states that under regular plantation of 6 m x 4 m spacing, 375 trees / ha at 90 % survival rate produced 5,250 cft after 10-12 years age and the revenue is Rs.13, 12,500/- and the net profit is Rs. 13,06, 109/- i.e., annual revenue of Rs. 13,1201- per year / ha. The sawmill owners purchase timber in round form from the farmers. The list of products manufactured, size, number of units per m3 of timber, market price and profit. Plywood (Rs. 32,032/-), frames (13,8891-) and planks (11,289/-) earned profit in that order. Large quantities of timber and its derivatives are transported and sold to wood industries at other places. It was observed that in majority of the sample sites, Melia dubia was cultivated with mulberry and only in a few sites, it was mixed with horticultural crops like Mango, Sapota, Banana and Coconut. In the dry regions of Kanakapura, the farmers cultivated Melia dubia, Teetona grandis, Grewillia robusta, Moringa oleifera, etc. along with agricultural crops such as Ragi, Maize, Castor, pulses and minor millets. Farmers are practically making lot of experiments on this Melia dubia species by standardizing few good models to enhance the productivity of agro forestry and farm forestry. Farmers of Karnataka are growing 600 to 800 saplings of Melia dubia together with inter cropping of various cash crops which is usually is reported to have fetching them Rs 5000 per tree at the spot by the Veneer Industries. Actually the market rate per tree is far higher than Rs 5000. Now presently farmers are reaping the benefit of Rs 15 to 20 Lakhs per ha by planting 400 to 500 trees per hectares. Now some of them thinking to grow 1000 to 1200 trees per hectares with pure farm forestry model so as to harvest the veneer worth Rs 50 to 60 Lakhs per ha at the rotation of only 7 to 8 year.