Sarpagandha is changing the nature of community forest

Kathmandu. The community forests of Devghat Rural Municipality of Tanahun have started the commercial cultivation of rare and valuable medicinal plant Sarpagandha, a new possibility of forest management and income has been seen. Devghat area is becoming a center of herb cultivation as the community is moving towards the production of herbs of high economic and medicinal importance, not limited to woody species in the forest.

Madhuvan Community Forest User Group located in Devghat Rural Municipality-5 has started commercial cultivation of Sarpagandha for the first time in Tanahun district. The group has planted 8,000 saplings in four plantation areas since last financial year. Division Forest Office Tanahun has invested Rs 4 lakh and Madhuvan Community Forest has invested Rs 100,000 in the project.

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