Environmental research

Eupatorium adenophorum, the shrubby perennial, is known as Banmara the forest killer in Nepali due to its notorious action in preventing other seedlings to grow. This shrub is found gregariously in the Nepalese hills and often nuisance to the villagers. The Community Briquette Project has aimed to harvest this shrub not only to restore the forest but also to make briquette from the shrub. The project would initiate to manufacture brequette involving community people and also explore market in the city. This initiative would also discourage the use of cow-dung cake, which has greater soil fertility value, to cook. Instead, the farmers would use briquette as the source of fuelwood.

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