Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 25:
The first meeting of the State Level Committee of the National Bamboo Mission was held today with Additional Chief Secretary Saichuana in the chair at his office chamber.
The meeting has taken the resolution of taking up wide-spread Bamboo plantation not just in forest area alone but in other no-forest area as well, according to an official source.
The meeting attended by all the officials concerned of the Horticulture, Agriculture, Industries, Rural Development and Forest and Environment Department has also decided on the identifying the area where Bamboo plantation would be taken up and the variety of the Bamboo species to be planted.
It may be noted that Forest Development Agency (FDA) has been entrusted with taking up plantation of Bamboo in the forest areas while Bamboo Development Agency in the non-forest areas.