Subhomoy Bhattacharjee

Raipur: The sal seed harvested by tribals through large parts of Naxalism-affected districts of Orissa and Chhattisgarh is bought by global chocolate manufacturers. But those chocolates cannot come to India.

Under the Food and Adulteration Act, use of butter extracted from sal seed in place of cocoa is prohibited in the country.

The Forest Department is launching 'Jungle Lagao-Kamao' programme with a view to ensuring improvement of degraded forests as well as providing additional source of livelihood to the residents of villages adjoining forests.

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The Saaja, Arjun, and Saal trees, which are available plenty in the forests, will now be used for the production of tusser on them. To start with, 2000 hectare area of forests has been identified for tusser production this year.

The Meda families of Koracharahatti (Chandayyanagara) in Thandya here have been depending on basket weaving for their livelihood for generations.

Off late shortage of bamboo has been making lives miserable leaving it huighly difficult to make their both ends meet.

NEW DELHI: The Green India Mission, part of India's plan to fight climate change, proposed to double the area being taken up for afforestation and eco-restoration over the next decade.

Ranchi, May 19: Tribal villagers who make a living out of forest produce will no longer be at the mercy of middlemen.

The government has moved to ensure a fair price for minor forest products such as tamarind, mango pulp, mahua and chiraunji this summer.

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