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| DDC Samba for raising indigenous, medicinal species in closures | | | Early Times Reporter
SAMBA, SEPTEMBER 28 -District Development Commissioner Samba B S Jamwal today inspected closures at Chagar and Mawa in Nud established by the Forest Department.
At Chagar, the DDC was informed that the closure spread over an area of 20 hectares houses 5000 plants of different species which included 2100 of Acacia Catectu, 1700 of Emblion Officinalis and 1200 of Dalbergia Sissoo. Expressing satisfaction over the survival rate of plants in the closure, the DDC exhorted upon the officers to undertake more plantation work in the areas especially of rare varieties of plants so that they could be saved from extinction.
At Mawa, it was disclosed the nearly 4000 plants were planted in the area with survival rate of 80-90 percent. The DDC stressed upon the officers to initiate necessary steps to improve the survival rate of plants and also directed them to replant the damaged and dried up varities.
Later, the DDC also visited a Nursery at Balode where about 13400 plants of different species have been raised including 840 plants of Aegle Mermalas (|Bel Patar), 4070 Delbergia Sissoo (Tali), 402 Emblica Officinalis (Ambla), 1630 Acacia Auriculiformis and 400 Termenlia Arjuna.
Speaking on the occasion, the DDC said that such nurseries are useful in providing the saplings of different species to the closures set up by the Forest Department in the district. He asked the concerned staff to take up plantation of Aleovera (Kawargandal) and medicinal plants which are gaining importance in the present time when the people are preferring indigenous products.
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