Incidentally a survey carried out in 1991-92 had found that about 50 farmers had encroached forestland after 1977, he said. Now boundaries of forest land and cultivated land had to identified and demarcated. “As of now, the district administration has settled the disputes of eight farmers and survey has been completed in six cases,” said official sources. A joint survey being undertaken by the Revenue and Forest and Wildlife Departments as part of regularising all forest land in Kozhikode district that had been encroached upon before January 1, 1977 will be completed by December 31. This follows disputes between 61 hill farmers, in whose possession the forestland is, and the Forest Department over a long period of time.
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