'Forest should be made a source of income'

CPN (UML) Chairman KP Sharma Oli has said that forest sector should be developed as a source of income and employment generation.

At a sapling plantation programme in Dhulikhel on the occasion of Community Forestry Day-2080 today, Oli stressed the need of multipurpose utilization of forest after its protection.

The forest sector should be utilized by planting vine trees, spice trees and fruit trees, Oli said while asking the local government to work by collaborating with the community forest. "Now, the local levels should develop local forest as the agricultural forest by considering the climatic conditions there," the UML Chairman said.

He expressed his dissatisfaction to the destruction of old saal trees in the name of scientific forest management some years ago and shared that he controlled that move citing lack of sustainable plans.

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