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why many villages oppose a programme that rewards companies for planting trees

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why many villages oppose a programme that rewards companies for planting trees

[ad_1] Sometime last year, Dattu Valvi took up temporary work offered by the state forest department in his village Mogarbara in Gujarat, about 120 km away from Surat. The job required him to drive a tractor carrying a filled water tanker to irrigate young saplings that the department had planted. Soon after, Valvi drove through … Read more

Lac cultivation from Jharkhand’s trees might hold the key to rural livelihoods

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Lac cultivation from Jharkhand’s trees might hold the key to rural livelihoods

[ad_1] For more than ten years, Lawrence Kandulna was a migrant worker in Pune. A native of Kulhai village, in Jharkhand’s Khunti district, Lawrence worked as a gardener in a nursery in the city and returned home for just a few months in the year, during which he would grow paddy and harvest it. Four … Read more