Dang. A community forest and consumer group here has helped in controlling forest fires by producing organic manure from wasted items in the forest area. Although other forest fires broke out along with the dry season, there was no fire in the Ajambari community forest area of Lamhi municipality-5 in Dang.
The forest users’ group has started producing organic manure using grass and leaves wasted in the forest area. Organic manure has been produced since last year by using grass and apples destroyed in the forest area.
Chairman of the group, Pawan Sharma Rijal, said that the forest group has moved ahead to link fertilizer production and fertilizer with income from Patpatingar. Stating that organic manure production has been started by linking it with income to make leaf management sustainable, Rijal said, “We have been involved in the production of organic manure by utilizing the leaves wasted in the forest area, which has also helped in controlling forest fires during the dry period.” ’
Although other forest fires have occurred along with the dry season, there is no fire in the Ajambari community forest area. As a result, the waste in the forest has been utilized and it has helped in controlling the fire and income. Seven locals have got employment here after the forest group started producing organic manure.
Sharma said that the forest group has been engaged in fertilizer production after the Community Forest Studies Center provided tools for the production of organic manure under the forest management-based program. Rijal said that the locals have got employment for the production of organic manure by collecting cow dung along with dried leaves in the forest forest.
According to Rijal, although the forest group had started work to produce organic fertilizers and sell them to the farmers, there has been less production now and the fertilizer has been used to grow saplings in the green park run by the forest group. Mahendra Raj Wagle, chief of the Division Forest Office, Dekhuri, said that the Ajambari Community Forest Group has been doing a model work by producing organic manure by utilizing the grass and leaves wasted in the forest in the recent past along with the promotion of tourism under the Forest Management Program.
According to him, the production of fertilizer of the forest group would help the forest group in earning income along with the management of the leaves. Maite Pun, a resident of Lamhi-5, who has been working on the production of fertilizer, said that stray cattle have also been managed for the supply of cow dung required for the preparation of organic manure. The community forest, which has been producing wood and wood by conserving the forest, will help in earning income in the coming days by producing organic manure from grass and leaves that are wasted in the forest along with the construction of tourism area in the recent past.
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