Palm oil in Mizoram: a balancing act between ecological threat and economic promise

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In Mizoram, palm oil has been considered a crop of immense economic promise. The state has 78 percent of the total land under oil palm cultivation in northeast India. india.mongabay...
The state and central government are encouraging the expansion of palm oil cultivation in Mizoram. However, threats to biodiversity, groundwater levels and soil fertility due to palm oil, have environmentalists, economic planners and farmers divided regarding the expansion of this crop in the biodiversity-rich state.
India is the largest importer of palm oil. Recently, the union cabinet also approved the National Mission on Edible Oils - Oil Palm with a special focus on the northeast region and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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@AnshumanMor 2 года назад

This is an amazing, amazing video. I just learnt a lot of exactly these concepts in the agriculture class I just took! Thank you for sharing!

@Rushikesh152 2 года назад

Very informative, well made video about a very serious topic. Kudos to the team.

@lalruatkimaralte7729 10 месяцев назад

And all these field were near Dampa sanctuary. In Mizoram, if you go for buffer zone, all villages nearby had to be effected. And AMFU of Mizoram representatives had already joined politics which he had dream of rather than the farmers. Their face had been seen now…

@lalruatkimaralte7729 10 месяцев назад

Farmers are happy with Oil Palm now and most subsidy based planter were all gone. These people planted in their already Jhum area. Now surviving were the real patience farmers. Oil Palm was not and always suggested to be planted interior where forest and wildlife were there!!! . These particular farmers does not sale his fruit because his plantation was very interior!!!.