Home Grown Mushrooms Enhancing Purulia Tribals Income

DFO, Purulia  has initiated Homegrown Mushroom Cultivation Project to conserve forest & to improve livelihood of poor tribal women

The officer has linked these women to the hoteliers and resort owners who directly purchase the product

Through the project, the tribal women are earning up to Rs 10,000 per month who otherwise would depend on forest produce

With an alternative source of income, they would give up forest destruction activity gradually leading to better forest conservation.