Legal action warned
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 21 2017:
Forest, Natural Resources Management & Environment Development Council, Chandel has warned of seeking legal action in case the authority concerned fails to distribute seeds and materials required for growing lemon grass to farmers of Chandel district at the earliest.
The council, in a press release said farmers of the district have been deprived of seeds and required materials for growing lemon grass since the last one year.
Repeated appeals had been made to the concerned authority in this regard but no positive has been given till date, it lamented .
It said farmers of the district would be pushed to the wall if seeds and required materials for growing lemon grass are not provided within August as the month is the most favourable time for growing lemon grass in the hills.