Chipko movement is connected with :

Forest conservation

Plant breeding

Agriculture

Green Revolution

The Chipko movement – In the 1970s, an organized resistance to the destruction of forests spread throughout India and came to be known as the Chipko movement.
The name of the movement comes from the word ’embrace’, as the villagers hugged the trees, and prevented the contractors’ from felling them.
Local women showed enormous bravery in protecting trees from the axe of contractors by hugging them.
The tree mattered much more to them than their own life.

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