Joint Forest Management (JFM) is directed towards facilitating the increase in productivity of hitherto degraded forests through active involvement of local communities in project formulation, implementation, harvesting, benefit sharing, marketing and monitoring (Pathan (1994). Uttarakhand is a newly created state with 63 per cent of its land covered by various kind of forest. The state adopted JFM policy passed by U.P. Government in 1997 to manage its rich forest resource with active participation of local farmers and other forest users. The present study was designed to ascertain the farmer’s knowledge about activities and anticipated benefits of Joint Forest Management project. The investigation was carried out in two purposively selected villages of Haldwani and Tarai Central forest divisions where the project was running since last four years. A sample of 260 respondents was drawn from two selected JFM villages on the basis of population proportion by using simple random sampling technique. The findings indicate that knowledge of the respondents about activities and anticipated benefits of Joint Forest Management is quite low. The reasons of low level of knowledge were improper campaign for popularization of the Programme, low education of the respondents, their business and less interaction with VFC members

Keyword: Joint Forest Management;