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Ghana marks ‘Green Ghana Day’, plants over 5M trees
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ACCRA, 11 June, 2021 (TON): On Friday, Ghana is aiming to plant over 5 million trees in an effort to preserve and protect the country’s forest cover and the environment and to mark the Green Ghana Day.
President Nana Akufo was expected to lead the occasion on Friday.
In Ghana’s 16 regions, thousands of bags containing millions of different types of seedlings were distributed.
While describing the event as a huge achievement, Ghana’s Lands Minister Samuel Abdulai Jinapor said, “As part of the program, we are seeking to work out a formula where the trees to be planted will be economic trees. We are talking about the Timber, Wawa, Nim, Rosewood, Shea trees. The rationale for this intervention is so that in planting the trees, we are also investing for the future.”
However, according to the sources, the government aims to plant the trees mostly on the degraded land, the areas that had depleted almost 80 percent since 1990.
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