Plantation programmes changing economic landscape in Pakistan
Islamabad
April 18, 2021
Islamabad : Some 4,250 olive trees planted under Ten Billion Tree Tsunami programme has started bearing fruit indicating this unprecedented initiative is going to improve the economic landscape of the country.
According to the details, the olive trees were planted with the use of an efficient drip irrigation system that greatly helped them attain maturity and bear fruit in a couple of years.
After the passage of the 18th Amendment, the management, planning, execution and implementation of the forest are vested in provincial forest departments, but policy making is a federal responsibility.
Given the economic benefits of the increasing tree cover the federal government has launched highly ambitious tree plantation programmes that would help improve socio-economic conditions of the local people in all the federating units.
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