Biomass alternative energy can also be obtained from plants like rapeseed, which can be
grown on land that is not fit for any farming or agriculture use, and therefore the potential for
high returns is basically unlimited. There have recently been some efforts to explore
commercial utility of weeds like Lantana, Parthenium and, Eupatorium etc that have caused
havoc in terms of social and ecological losses. In many places, villagers had to shift their
hamlets because of severe infestation of Lantana. Weed as a new set of biomass cannot be overlooked particularly in wake of alarming depletion of forest biomass. Growing scarcity of
latter has prohibited several community day to day utility of biomass. Forestry management
strategy should now predominantly include weed management through involvement of local
community. It is equally true that wildly growing weed can only be controlled through large
number of community involvement and that too by subjecting it to local and commercial
utility.