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A Farmer Producer Organisation (FPO) successful Coimbatore has reached retired to farmers successful the territory to instrumentality portion successful an predisposition gathering aboriginal this period connected the commercialized cultivation of pulpwood trees done a tie-up with Tamil Nadu Papers Limited (TNPL), Karur.
The Palamalai Farmer Producer Organisation has announced that a day-long programme scheduled connected November 29 volition see a tract sojourn to a workplace raising pulpwood trees successful Tiruppur district.
The farmers are to beryllium addressed by officials of Agriculture Marketing and Horticulture departments, too teaching module of Forestry College and Research Institute, Mettupalayam.
Officials of TNPL volition besides beryllium interacting with the farmers connected the scope for cultivation of pulpwood trees connected a commercialized scale.
The Palamalai FPO, which has been receiving registrations implicit phone: 9894066243, is expecting the lawsuit to beryllium a catalyst for bringing immense swathes of onshore successful the territory nether pulpwood cultivation.
Last month, a squad from TNPL conducted an predisposition programme connected pulpwood cultivation nether buy-back statement for a radical of farmers successful Periyanaickenpalayam.
The knowing connected some sides was that the agro-climatic conditions successful Coimbatore was suited for raising casuarina and ‘malai vembu’ trees.
According to the farmers, fallow onshore would beryllium utilised for raising the trees, with site-specific clones.
TNPL has probe linkages with Forest College & Research Institute (FCRI), Mettupalayam, affiliated to Tamil Nadu Agriculture University (TNAU), and Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (IFGTB), Coimbatore, nether ICFRE (Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education).
