Miyawaki Forests: Do India's Tiny Dense Jungles Work?

Walk past a municipal plot in Bengaluru, Hyderabad or Pune and you may spot a strange sight: a wildly dense thicket of saplings, knee-high one year and head-high the next, crammed

The method is named after the late Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki, who spent decades studying what India's old-growth patches and Japan's temple groves had in common: dense, laye

That crowding is the whole trick.

The appeal in India is easy to understand.

Strip away the hype and there is genuine substance here.