Living abroad with land in India? Check your trees from your phone
You pay for the planting and the care, but all you get is a phone call and a few photos. A weekly satellite view lets you see your land for yourself.
Notes on what happens after planting day
Guides on plantation monitoring in India: measuring tree survival, reporting it for CSR and audits, and the methods that work.
Plantation monitoring for NGOs: show donors their trees are still standing
Donors used to ask how many trees you planted. Now they ask how many are alive. A weekly check of every site gives you an honest answer you can share.
Orchard monitoring: see every row without walking every row
On a large orchard, a dry block can spread for weeks before anyone walks past it. A weekly health map of every row catches it in time.
Did your CSR trees survive? Why companies need tree tracking
You funded the plantation drive. A year later your board asks what happened to the trees. A survival number with dates behind it is the only good answer.
Highway plantation: how contractors can hold 90% sapling survival
NHAI will not issue a completion certificate, or keep paying for maintenance, unless 90 percent of roadside saplings are alive. Here is how to know where you stand on every kilometre.
Plantation monitoring for government: know what survived before the audit does
Every monsoon, departments plant across districts. Years later an audit asks how many trees lived. A weekly check of every site answers that question while there is still time to act on it.
How to measure tree survival rate in a plantation
Survival rate is the one number that tells you whether a plantation worked. This guide covers the formula, sampling, timing, the common mistakes, and which monitoring method to use.
CSR plantation monitoring: how to prove your trees survived
A CSR plantation drive is easy to fund and hard to account for a year later. This is how to set up monitoring so you can show your board, your auditor and your impact assessor what survived.
Plantation monitoring in India: why counting saplings is not enough
India reports how many saplings it plants. Audits keep finding that nobody checked how many lived. Here is what plantation monitoring is, why it is now unavoidable, and how it is done.