The Eastern Regional Manager for Forestry Commission, Isaac Noble Eshun has said, the region is targeting planting 600,000 seedlings to support President Akufo-Addo’s vision to make Ghana green once again.
This year’s Green Ghana day is slated for Friday, June 9, 2023 where the entire country is also targeted to plant Ten Million (10m) seedlings to augment the already existed ones.
Noble Eshun adds, they have distributed the 600,000 seedlings to all their offices in the region that is; Begoro, Kyebi, Donkorkrom, Mpraeso, Somanya, Kade, and Oda including their main office in Koforidua so anyone who needed some of the seedlings can walk into the aforementioned offices and grab some for planting.
“The Regional office would partner with the Eastern Regional Coordinating Council (ERCC) and New Juaben North and South Municipal Assemblies respectively to go planting on that day whiles their other offices would also collaborated with the remaining 31 Municipal and District Assemblies in the region to do same”, he told Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH.
He ceased the opportunity and entreated all and sundry to take part of this year’s program.
The Green Ghana day was introduced in 2021, by President Nana Addo as part of an aggressive national afforestation or reforestation program to restore the lost forest cover of Ghana and to contribute to the global effort to mitigate climate change.
Theme for this year’s program is: ” OUR FOREST, OUR HEALTH“.
He stated further that, the seedlings is giving out for free, so being it schools, churches, institutions, individuals who want to join the tree planting can walk into their offices and collect theirs and show them where it will be planted at.
According to him, not every land is suitable for a particular tree to grow well, so they will interact with those who will come for the seedlings to know the exact land they are going to plant them on so that a rightful seedlings can be given to them to be planted, saying they have ornamentals ( Sepale, Odum, Mahogany etc) and Fruits trees ( mango, coconut, avocado, orange).
In addition, the Deputy Eastern Regional Manager for Forestry Commission, Emmanuel Owusu Nkwantabisa said, the previous ones planted in the forest, had over 80% survived while about 70 % of the ones planted on the roadsides, communities, schools, homes, and others also survived.
A development he noted their effort didn’t go waste.
He advice the general public that, after planting the trees they have to protect and take good care of them as well as preventing them from animals for being destroyed.
By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.
Source// Obohnewsonline. Com.
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