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Mokokchung, July 30 (EMN): A review meeting on plantation works of batch-1 village comprising Changtongya New, Mongsenyimti and Mopungchuket was held at Marepkong forest complex, Mokokchung, on July 29.
The meeting was held after inspection of all the Nagaland Forest Management Project (NFMP) model sites which included JAF, JFF, JCF, JCC and PEC in the respective villages by the DFO-cum-DMU head, Dr. Sentitula along with ADMU, FMU heads, field staff and DMU supporting staff.
The Forest Management Unit (FMU) heads of Changtongya and Mokokchung presented their presentations on the status of the plantation works, area covered, nursery stock and photo points of all the models in their respective villages under Batch-I.
Of the three villages under NFMP, only Changtongya New Village has undertaken all the five models i.e. JAF, JFF, JCF, JCC and PEC. Mopungchuket has only two Models i.e. JCC and PEC and Mongsenyimti has undertaken only three models namely JAF, JFF and PEC.
As per the work done under NFMP Mokokchung, JAF model covered an area of about 71.823 hectares where about 33,500 saplings were planted, while JFF model area covered about 30.8262 hectares with approximately 25,726 saplings planted and the JCF model covered 12.7 hectares of area with approximately 8000 saplings planted.
JCC model area covered about 30.0481 hectares approximately with 11,700 saplings planted and PEC model covered about 802.29 hectares with about 17,000 saplings planted.
It was informed that further action plan which included Silvicultural operations and weeding would begin from the month of August.
The FMU field staff have highlighted the issues faced and observations made during the field inspections. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, the work executed till date has been satisfactory, it was informed.
In the meeting, issues faced during implementation were resolved with the adoption of better ways to deal with the remaining works as well as to proceed towards Batch-2 villages with minimal field errors.