Environmental policy and administrative management

Land degradation in Himalayas is both natural and anthropogenic. Natural phenomena such as landslide, river cutting and flood are also triggered by human s exploitation to the nature. Unsuitable land management, deforestation, use of chemical fertilizers and pesticide are just a few anthropogenic activities that have degraded the already fragile young Himalayan landscape. The project s initiation to establishing an organic village in Timal area, 40km north east from Kathmandu is a very ambitious endeavor in itself. The concept is to develop an organic village where one can find renewable energy technologies such as SHS and ICS coupled with sustainable land use practices such as organic farming and terrace farming. Equal emphasis is also given to develop national and international market for distribution of organic, RET-produced goods branded with organic certification-the enviro-guard.

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