Horticulture department, MOMA providing alternative livelihood to poppy growers

As part of the Chief Minister N Biren Singh's War on Drugs campaign, several government agencies and departments have been cohesively working together to control the drug menace and fully destroy poppy plantation from the State. The Horticulture & Soil Conservation department along with the Manipur Organic Mission Agency (MOMA) has been  involved in the campaign by providing alternative means of livelihood against poppy cultivation to villages from where poppy plantation has been destroyed. Peh village in Ukhrul district is one village where the department has initiated implementation of the alternative means of lifelihood against poppy plantation. A team of officials from horticulture department and MOMA visited the village to inspect the village.