Twenty bamboo plants were a beginningSourced
Payeng kept planting after the first small attempt
In 1979, Jadav Payeng saw dead snakes on a treeless sandbar in Assam, India. He planted twenty bamboo seedlings and continued planting trees over many years. The site developed into a forest.
The first planting was small; the commitment lasted much longer.
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