About 900,000 trees are expected to be planted today June 11, 2021, in the Eastern region as part of the Green Ghana Project targeting the planting of at least five (5) million trees nationwide.
The Green Ghana initiative is a project by the Government of Ghana as part of the broader strategy to recover alarming losses of forest cover and vegetation owing to illegal mining and chain sawing.
The tree planting exercise is scheduled to take place today across the country would see the mobilization of Ghanaians to plant trees and nurture them to maturity as a way of contributing to the preservation of the environment.
The exercise would commence with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Vice President Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia, the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, and the Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin Yeboah, planting trees.
The Forestry Commission under the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources as well as the Department of Parks and Gardens would lead the charge.
Eastern Regional Minister, Seth Kwame Acheampong a few weeks ago inaugurated the Regional Green Ghana Committee tasked to spearhead the tree planting exercise.
Members of the committee were drawn from the Forestry Commission of Ghana, Environmental Protection Agency, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Environmental Health, NADMO, Department of Parks and Gardens with the Regional Minister as the Chairman
The Deputy Eastern Regional Forestry Manager, Nana Poku Bosompim, said the target of the committee is to plant at least nine hundred thousand (900,000) tree seedlings in all the 33 Municipal and District Assemblies in the Eastern Region.
The species to be planted include Royal Palm, Militia, Cassia, Acacia, Tree of life, Eucalyptus, Mahogany, Neem Red sandalwood among others.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
