A community nursery project run by Aaranyak, a biodiversity conservation organisation, has been providing training to women from the Udalguri district on nursery management.
The training is part of the organisation’s ongoing project, “Community-based integrated approach to facilitate Human Elephant Coexistence and Biodiversity Conservation,” which is working towards empowering the community and making them self-reliant. A community-managed nursery has been set up under the project, which will mainly focus on the production and maintenance of Assam lemon plants, which will be used as a bio-fence to help mitigate human-elephant conflicts.
Black pepper and other vegetables and fruits will also be planted in the home gardens of the community members.
Attendees of the training programme were taught by Dr Naba Kumar Goswami, Senior Fellow and Regional Coordinator of TERI, and Prafulla Boro, Field Assistant of TERI. The training included demonstrations of nursery management techniques such as grafting, cutting, and air layering.
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Goswami also addressed various issues faced by the community members regarding nursery plant management. The programme was completed by Jayanta Kumar Pathak, Senior Manager in Aaranyak’s Environment Education and Capacity Building Division, and Rabiya Daimari, Field Coordinator in Aaranyak’s Elephant Research and Conservation Division, with support from the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India.
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