The Corporation has developed these forests at 30 locations so far; the civic body will allow residents inside to collect medicinal herbs
The Greater Chennai Corporation has decided to permit residents to visit Miyawaki forests developed in various parts of the city.
Speaking to reporters on Monday at the first Miyawaki forest in Kotturpuram, Corporation Commissioner G. Prakash said the Corporation will permit residents inside the first Miyawaki forests after six months. “Residents will be permitted to get medicinal herbs from the Miyawaki forests for their personal use,” he said.
Miyawaki forests are developed based on a Japanese method of restoration of degraded land, planting species of trees, plants and shrubs, regenerating all layers of original forests in a particular area.
The Corporation has developed Miyawaki forests at 30 locations, Mr. Prakash said, and asked residents’ associations are to inform the civic body about unused OSR plots of land to develop more…