Aizawl: The central trip to promote oil palm plantation cultivation in the northeastern region has attracted flakes from various quarters in Mizoram and faces the opposition from environmental, conservationist and local media lovers.
Experts in this country consider the National Mission of RS-11,040 Crore in edible oil palm oil (NMEO-OP) into a central plan to dispose of “condemned” plants in the northeastern region and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, such as oil palm plantations leading At the destruction of rainforests and genuine biodiversity in Southeast Asia.
According to environmental lovers, palm oil cultivation which extends causes damage to biodiversity.
It drains groundwater resources and causes large destruction of flora and fauna, causing damage that cannot be repaired in a small state such as Mizoram.
The Association for Environmental Conservation (Asep) and Mizoram conservation said the central step to promote oil palm cultivation in the northeastern state and the Andaman and Nicobar islands could become a disaster.
Mizoram’s conservation slammed tweets by Minister of Zoramthanga, posted on August 19, thanked the planning center to increase cultivation in the region.
Asep and other environmental organizations said cultivation would have an impact on community ownership of tribal land.
Also, oil palm is a water guide, a monoculture plant with a long period of pregnancy, which will make it not suitable for small farmers.
LallianPuii, a scientist at the Wildlife Institute of India and members of wildlife rescue and rehabilitation in Mizoram, said: “Globally, all tropical countries with commercial palm oil cultivation face ecological decline and socio-economic consequences.” In India, his fear is that if the plantation is expanded, it can enlarge the wildlife crisis and habitat, he said.
“Northeast India will be greatly influenced by oil palm cultivation because it is one of the most biological areas in the country.” Meanwhile, oil palm plantations have been taken along the Assam border in Kolastic District and Tripura border in Mamit Regency, where cultivators complained that they did not accept remunerative prices for their harvest.
There was an oil extraction factory, founded by Godrej Agrrrovet Company, in the village of Bukvannei in Kolastic District.
However, local farmers complain that they do not produce enough from plant cultivation.