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  • Tashiling Broom Grass and Agro-biodiversity Diversification Project launched in Tsirang

    Posted on by ICTD, MoAF

    June 17, Tsirang: Tsirang Forest Division observed World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 2018 with a theme, “Land has true value-invest in it” by launching the Sustainable Cultivation of Broom Grass and Promotion of Agro-biodiversity Diversification Project at Tashiling Village under Shemjong gewog. The Chief Forestry Officer for Tsirang graced the occasion as the Chief Guest.

    The Tashiling Broom Grass and Agro-biodiversity Diversification Project being launchedThe 32000 USD project was funded by GEF-SGP, UNDP Bhutan for 2 years and benefits 25 households directly and 92 Tashiling Community Forest Management group members in general. The project is managed by Tashiling Serekakthab Detshen covering 15 acres of Tashiling Community Forest Land.

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  • Regional Workshop on Sustainable Intensification of Rice based cropping system held

    Posted on by Keshav Gurung

    A50X672212-14 June, Thimphu: The Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests organized a three days regional workshop on sustainable intensification of rice based cropping system in Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal. The participants will also consult and validate the project proposal on sustainable Intensification of rice-based cropping systems.

    The proposed project focuses on sustainable intensification of rice based cropping systems in coherence to the 12th FYP goal of the RNR sector, which aspires to “achieve food self-sufficiency for a prosperous and self-reliant society living in harmony with nature”.

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  • National Seminar on implementation of the ABS regime in Bhutan held

    Posted on by Keshav Gurung

    ParticipantsThimphu: The National Biodiversity Centre (NBC) along with the NPIF project implementing partners, Menjong Sorig Pharmaceutical Corporation Limited (MSPCL) and Bio Bhutan organised a seminar on “Sharing of experiences on the implementation of the Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) regime in Bhutan” on June 8.

    The seminar was focused on the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilisation to the Convention on Biological Diversity which is an international agreement which aims at sharing the benefits arising from the utilisation of genetic resources in a fair and equitable way.

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  • Historically Significant Trees of Bhutan Launched

    Posted on by Keshav Gurung

    The Hon'ble Lyonpo launched the book on Historically Significant Trees of BhutanThe Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environmental Research (UWICER) published Historically Significant Trees of Bhutan during the opening ceremony of the 10th World Dendro Conference on June 10 at the conference hall of the Royal University of Bhutan in Thimphu. This is an effort of the institute to document the stories behind each historically significant trees of Bhutan and to check the age of the tree through the use of dendrochronology.

    The institute embarked on the study after having received the Royal command through the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests to document the same. Bhutan is filled with myths and Bhutanese can be quite certain that every tree near the monasteries and Dzongs or for that matter any cypress tree in Bhutan is associated with stories in relation to important figures who walked the country states the report.

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