NAWALPUR, Jan 12: Chief Minister of Gandaki Province, Krishna Chandra Nepali Pokharel has said that the Gandaki provincial government is ready to resolve the problems related to the community forestry.

Looking back to the paradigm shift of forest management in Nepal, community forestry is not an old practice. The emergence of community forestry and its policy in Nepal took place only after the failure of meritocratic forest management system which had already sacrificed the majority of the hill forests (Hobley, 1996).