In pre-monsoon and monsoon seasons, preparing seed-balls and placing them at various places where forest and fruit trees can be grown was a popular activity in recent years. However, the Covid-19 lockdown this time has hit that activity too, which is aimed at increasing greenery. Since last four years, seed-ball preparation and placing them in various places to increase the …
SURAT: As part of its annual monsoon plans, the civic body’s garden department, even this year promises to grow new trees in the city. And so it has claimed that in the past five years, they have planted at least 10 lakh new trees (cumulative) within the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) limits. Even by conservative estimates of 60% survival rate, …
Unethical practices and inflated claims put into question the future of schemes for investment in teak plantations in India. Investment in tree plantations, which was always relatively low in India, has recently grown in importance. Forest-based industries, recognizing that the existing forests cannot continue to meet their raw material requirements, are expected to play a significant part in increasing investments …
Udhampur (Jammu and Kashmir) , Feb 7 : With an aim to reduce air pollution and increase the green cover, Udhampur-based government school in Jammu and Kashmir has organised a plantation drive. The students along with their teachers enthusiastically planted more than 200 trees on a barren land situated near the school premises. Speaking to ANI, a school teacher named …
Jubilee Hills: As many as 50 trees on the stretch at Apollo Hospital at Jubilee Hills were chopped down by the workers of Telangana State Southern Power Distribution Company Limited (TSSPDSCL) on Saturday, much to the displeasure of citizens and activists. Citizens allege that when they asked the workers, they said they were acting as per their official’s orders to …
