Palamu tiger reserve will open two outlets — one each at Daltonganj project tiger directorate premise and at Betla — to sell honey produced in the reserve. A registered NGO Madhumakhhi Gram Vikas Society Henar in Maromar in tiger reserve is collecting processing filtering and then marketing this honey which comes in one kg and two kg glass bottles of `245 per kg.
The revenue of which will go to the Madhumakhi Gram Vikas Society Henar. Field director PTR who is also RCCF Palamu Manoj Singh said men and women of primitive tribes like Kissan Nageshias Beerjeeyas have set up an NGO called Madhumakhii Gram Vikas Society which is a registered one and is to market this honey.
A Mumbai based firm has set up honey processing and filtration plant at Henar where the collected honey which is raw is treated in pre-heating heating filteration condension and then settling is done. The plant is worth `7.5 lakh.
Singh said the entire process takes eight uninterrupted hours and since there is no electricity in Maromar’s Henar where this plant is the work is done with 25 Kv generator set.
The field director said 125 Kgs of honey stands processed. He was all praise for his team of officials AK Mishra (DFO Core) Mahaling (DFO Buffer) for the pains that have changed the very complex of the PTR in just four months time that he has so taken over PTR as its director.
Sources said honey making in the hub of extremism as Maromar Henar Ara are such places which have been the hide outs of the top Maoists. Then DIG of police Palamu Saket Kumar Singh had confirmed that top Maoist Ravinder Ganjhu was hiding in a small jungle in Maromar.
Singh reiterated that this great effort of the PTR will further link the people to tiger reserve as there is a kind of apathy among the commoners for the wild life and this tiger reserve.