{"id":390438,"date":"2023-11-21T00:39:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T19:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=390438"},"modified":"2023-11-21T15:25:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T09:55:33","slug":"forest-department-clarifies-misconception-about-teak-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/21\/forest-department-clarifies-misconception-about-teak-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest department clarifies misconception about Teak tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Forest department has sought to clarify misconception that teak (Tectona grandis) tree plantation was hazardous to human beings. In a circular, divisional forest officer Dimapur forest division Beizo Suokhrie noted that several village councils were coming up with a resolution not to allow plantation\/standing of Teak trees in the roadsides or village areas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DFO stated that teak trees have more health benefits for humans and economic growth for the farmers than it does harm.<br>DFO noted that teak was also one of the world\u2019s most valuable timbers, adding that its plantation was an economically viable option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>According to DFO, there were thousands of scientific research papers and article publications on different aspect of teak plantation that can be found.<br>However, he said so far there was no such scientifically proven findings that teak plantation posed adverse effect or direct health hazards to human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>In this regard, DFO has requested all the responsible authorities to \u201ctake note of this misconception\u201d and make necessary amendments in their legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forest department has sought to clarify misconception that teak (Tectona grandis) tree plantation was hazardous to human beings. In a circular, divisional forest officer Dimapur forest division Beizo Suokhrie noted that several village councils were coming up with a resolution not to allow plantation\/standing of Teak trees in the roadsides or village areas. DFO stated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":261712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}