The State-level contest is open for institutions and youth clubs
Karkala-based non-government organisation, Jagrati Foundation, has come out with a unique programme to encourage planting of fruit-bearing saplings for the benefit of monkeys that have been straying into human habitation and agriculture fields in search of food.
It has mooted State-level Vanara Vana (Park for Monkeys) competition for institutions and youth clubs wherein the organisations plant at least 15 saplings of long-term fruit-bearing tree species and nurturing them. Foundation’s honorary advisor Gurme Suresh Shetty told reporters in Udupi on Wednesday that the winner in the competition will get a prize money of ₹55,000.