In a bid to save our hill forest lands and save the country from climate disasters, our government should start taking strict measures. Experts expressed concerns over the native species destroying plantation and horticulture practices. Although horticulture is bringing economic benefit to the farmers, rampant use of pesticides has emerged as a major threat to biodiversity.
As there is no cultivable plain land, the hill people have no other choice but to do Jhum cultivation and produce cotton, vegetables and fruits. We need to look beyond Jhum cultivation and introduce economic activities that support the livelihood of the hill people.
Some notorious land grabbers have occupied hill forest lands and are inflicting great harm to our nature by building industries, factories, resorts, residential homes and educational institutions. Now various organizations under the government are going to forge together to put a halt to these harmful acts.
We need to look beyond Jhum cultivation
and introduce economic
activities that support the
livelihood of the hill people
Recovering these lands, government should make sure that they carefully move forward with the handover process of these hill forest lands to any government or private organizations in the name of development activities.
This is because in the name of development some private organizations or even government organizations can occupy these lands and start doing what the encroachers are doing.
Encroachers often cut forest trees while occupying these lands. By recovering them government can plant new trees, which will decrease deforestation and increase afforestation in the process.
