| 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 | ||||||