Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Manoj Markendeyrao Wahane Vs Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board & Others dated 19/09/2022. The Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board had set up a chemical treatment plant for bamboo processing within the Gorewada reserve forest, Nagpur, Maharashtra without forest clearance. Thus, the board …
The Environment Ministry is moving ahead with its efforts to ensure a minimum support price for minor forest produce such as bamboo and tendu leaves. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has reiterated his ministry
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has asked states to treat bamboo as a minor forest produce (MFP). Environment minister Jairam Ramesh directed the states to ask their forest departments to follow this categorisation in a letter dated March 21. He also asked the states to respect the rights …
The impending ease of restrictions on bamboo will be a dream come true for crores of people belonging to forest dwelling communities, artisans and crasftsmen in the country for whom it is a traditional source of subsistence. Union Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh communicated a set of guidelines to …
The Planning Commission is pushing for fixing of a minimum support price (MSP) for forest products, including bamboo, as an effective anti-naxal strategy, hoping that increased income levels would address at least part of the disenchantment prevalent among the tribal communities. As of now, the central government has fixed MSPs …
In an effort to wean away tribals from the Maoists, the Environment Ministry is pushing for a minimum support price for minor forest produce like bamboo and tendu patta. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh is taking up the matter with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. A minimum support price (MSP) for minor …
AN EXPERT committee, formed by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, has recommended that trade control of tendu leaves, critical for forest dwellers’ income, should vest in the state. The panel, headed by agriculture economist T Haque, was set up to ensure ownership rights of forest dwellers over minor forest produce …
MENDHA Lekha village in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra staged a novel protest on February 15. It organised a bamboo sale in the village to highlight the forest department’s refusal to grant transit passes to transport bamboo out of the village for sale. Mendha Lekha was one of the first two …
New Delhi: The environment and forests ministry took half a step towards ending the monopoly of the forest department over the Rs 10,000 crore annual bamboo trade in the country. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh wrote to chief ministers of all states to alter their rules and instruct the state forest …
In a letter sent to chief ministers of all states on March 21, environment minister Jairam Ramesh asked them to direct state forest departments to treat bamboo as minor forest produce. Read this letter sent by MoEF to the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. Letter by Shri Jairam Ramesh to …
The department of Forest, Environment and Ecology has passed an order to hand over 6,300 tonne bamboo which have flowered and dried in the Kodagu forest to the Karnataka State Forest Industries Corporation Limited as a precautionary measure to avoid forest fire and also to increase the income of the …
All India Co-ordinated Research Project on Agroforestry, College of Agriculture, Nagpur, have developed Teak and Bamboo based agrisilviculture system. In the present study production and economics of Teak and Bamboo based Agrisilviculture System is discussed.
The State Department of Forests is planning to permit private companies to grow forest produce such as rubber, eucalyptus, bamboo, reed, cane and tamarind on its land across the State. Forest Minister C H Vijayashankar told reporters here on Wednesday that the department will take a major portion of about …
Smallholder farming systems throughout the world are believed to be potential sinks to remove atmospheric CO2. Smallholder bamboo farming system in Barak Valley, Assam, which forms a part of the traditional homegarden system, holds promise in this respect. Occurrence of bamboo in all homesteads coupled with progressive increase in culm …
Smallholder farming system throughout the world are believed to be potential sinks to remove atmospheric CO2. Smallholder bamboo farming system in Barak Valley, Assam, which forms a part of the traditional homegarden system, holds promise in this respect.
As all bamboo trees in forests of Koppa taluk have bloomed fully at a time, there is apprehensions that the crop may be perished completely. Fully bloomed bamboo plants at forest in Koppa taluk. DH PhotoThe flowering of bamboo leads to mass change in the environment and also leads to …
LUCKNOW: In a bid to promote bamboo cultivation and its usage, the state forest department along with the national bamboo mission would hold a workshop here on January 10. Currently, in India, there are 1,275 varieties of bamboo. The national bamboo mission is to be implemented in 20 districts of …
Bamboos suffer from low shelf life because of attacks by fungi or insects mainly insect borers or termites. Traditionally, freshly cut bamboo poles were dipped in flowing water to remove starch, which attracts insects and pests or coating with oils or paint and even coal tar.
THE Maharashtra forest department has proposed including bamboo under minor forest produce (MFP). While the department touts the initiative as a step towards giving ownership of bamboo to gram sabhas under the Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act, forest rights activists say it is an attempt to dilute the …
Under his Vanvasi Samman Yatra Phase IV today, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan reached Mandai Village in Birsa Development Block, 125 kms away from the Balaghat district headquarters. At a public meeting organised here Chouhan said that 30 per cent of the royalties received from the mineral resources would be …
