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
.
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