Nigeria: Katsina Starts Afforestation With 6,700 Trees
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Vanguard (Lagos)
5 August 2008
Posted to the web 5 August 2008
KATSINA State government has flagged off this year's tree planting campaign with the planting of 6,700 seedlings at Dankama village of Kaita Local Government area of the state.
The launch was part of an ambitious afforestation program to plant some seven million tree seedlings in the next three years across the state.
Governor Ibrahim Shehu Shema who is heading the 16 member State Afforestation Committee to drive the initiative, told the crowd that one million tree seedlings would be planted in the state before the end of the year, as part of deliberate plans to check desertification.
He explained that 1.5 million trees would be planted in 2009, two million in 2010 and two and a half million in 2011.
Shema said each of the 34 local councils in the state would this year plant 11,200 seedlings, while the six councils on the fringes of the desert would each plant an additional 6, 700 trees covering some 66 hecters.
The six desert prone councils include Kaita, Baure, Maiadua, Jibia, Zango and Mashi.
The governor disclosed that some 30,000 hecters of woodlots would also be planted in the three senatorial zones of the state to provide buffer stock for trees required for cooking, to minimize incidences of tree felling.
Similarly, the governor directed all headmasters, principals and heads of tertiary institutions to collect, plant and nurture the tree seedlings to maturity within their establishments.
Each primary school in the state according to the governor will plant 100 trees, each secondary school - 200 while the tertiary institutions were directed to plant and nurture 1000 trees each.
Shema said apart from the mass afforestation project, the government has commenced a bio-mass program to generate gas and electricity using cow dung and human waste to rural communities of the state.
The project, he said, would reduce the indiscriminate felling of trees, and provide cheap and cleaner energy to the people.
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According to him, the bio-mass project using Chinese technology, has commenced in four communities on a pilot basis.
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