Bio-diversity

Awareness raising of communities, producers and school children, organization of village producers to eliminate the middle traders and promote direct marketing of kitul palm products; development of home gardens and protection of four watersheds. The project attempted to revive a traditional industry of tapping the kitul palm and processing the sap into treacle and jaggery both items of which have a market locally. The farmers who were ignored by the industries development sector revived in the five villages the project was implemented and a substantial income earned through the products.

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