Table 2. Results of a survey of villagers' preferences regarding the rehabilitation of degraded lands.

Land use option
Respondents (%)
Treatments/inputs
 
    Planting trees
8
    Planting bamboo (Thamnocalamus spathiflorus)
58
    Cultivation of medicinal plants
 
        Aconitum heterophyllum
34
        Allium stracheyi
34
        Angelica glauca
34
        Carum carvi
34
        Nardostachys grandiflora
17
        Orachis latifolia
9
        Picrorhiza kurrooa
34
        Podophyllum hexandrum
17
        Rheum australe
34
        Saussurea lappa
9
        Swertia chirayta
9
        Tanacetum tomentosum
34
        Thalictrum foliosum
17
    Introduction of both bamboo and medicinal species
27
Protection from grazing
100
Soil management/organic manuring
100
Decision making
 
    by formal village institutions
0
    by entire village community informally
100
People's contribution
 
    Voluntary labor
0
    Farmyard manure
95
    Propagules/seedlings/saplings from community forest
98