Energy Plantation :

The need to grow Energy Plantations to meet fuel wood needs without affecting agricultural lands is a pressing priority Energy plantations on waste lands is one of the most economic and versatile ways of harnessing solar energy through the photosynthetic process In addition to making fuel wood availability , it can also improve the fertility of degraded lands.

Gujarat has over 67 lakh hectares of wastelands (almost 10% of the 63 million hectares of waste land in the country) which could be productively used to grow energy plantations.

GEDA had taken up energy plantation programme in 1985-86 and continuer till 1998-99 linking to energy supply, food & fodder, soil regeneration, ecological development and employment generation through efficient utilization of wasted, unproductive and neglected lands in Abdasa Taluka of Kutch District