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UTTARAKHAND FOREST DEPARTMENT USES DRONE TO DISTRIBUTE SEED BALLS
The Sunday Guardian
|August 06, 2023
The Uttarakhand forest department’s Research Wing successfully conducted seed ball broadcasting, a first of its kind in the state, on 1 August, using a drone in the landslide-affected areas, in Manora Range of Nainital Forest Division.
This is extreme hill top area where human reach is minimal. The Research Wing successfully conducted seed ball broadcasting using a drone in landslide-affected areas in Beat Nalena II, Compartment 22 of Manora Range of Nainital Forest Division.
The broadcast seeding method involves two ways for scattering seeds either by hand or mechanically, over a relatively large area. When these seeds germinate and grow, their roots hold onto soil, checking soil erosion and this increases the slope stability of a landslide-prone hillside areas.
This story is from the August 06, 2023 edition of The Sunday Guardian.
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