U.P.’s green strategy: Beginning in July, U.P.’s neighbors’ trees will have saplings planted during the following plantation season.
U.P.’s green strategy: In order to assure their maintenance during the impending plantation season, which begins next month, Uttar Pradesh has planned to plant seedlings of trees that are significant to its neighbors, including Nepal and the eight states with which it shares a border.
As an example, consider the national tree of Nepal, the sacred fig, which will be planted along the Indo-Nepal border. The state tree of Rajasthan, the Khejri (Prosopis cineraria), is located in Agra that borders Rajasthan.
The goal of the project is to unite the nearby neighbors of the Uttarakhand to work together on a plantation. According to a senior forest department officer, “this year we will include saplings of trees that matter for our neighbors too. We plant a variety of saplings that give shade or nutritious food when they grow up.”
During the yearly plantation drive, Uttar Pradesh hopes to plant 35 crore saplings this year; currently, 54 crore seedlings are prepared for planting at nurseries. The departments of forests and 25 other departments will plant neem, drumstick, sheesham, bamboo, jamun, imli, Arjuna, and other types.
Together, the departments of forests and climate change plan to plant 14 crore seedlings and other departments 21 crore saplings.
There will be areas in the Lalitpur district where plantations will contain banyan trees and other species’ saplings. Particularly in the districts of Sonbhadra and Chandauli that border Bihar, plantations would feature peepal saplings. A large number of the seedlings chosen for border areas are also planted in Uttar Pradesh.
The states of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, and Haryana are bordered by Uttar Pradesh. As a result, state trees from other states will be planted in a number of districts alongside species that are well-liked in Uttar Pradesh. The goal is to increase Uttar Pradesh’s overall green cover from 9.23% of its total land area to 15%.