GETTING TO KNOW
The Bhutan government is conducting study tours for farmers. Twenty farmers from Parop village were recently taken on a 5-day trip to forestry plantations and nurseries in Wangduephodrang, Punakha and Thimphu to launch the "Farmers-Foresters Familiarisation" tour organised by the government's social forestry and extension section. The aim of the tour was to expose the farmers to other agencies of the renewable natural resources sector, while creating an awareness of the need for forestry management. The participants were briefed on problems like fires, grazing and illegal felling and taught plantation techniques as remedies.
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