Going green: District nurseries in the offing

FAISALABAD:

The government has decided to set up nurseries under the Punjab Social Forestry Project to overcome the shortage of trees.

A spokesman of the Forest Department said the government had sanctioned Rs60 million for setting up the nurseries. He said 7.2 million saplings would be planted in a year. He said each nursery would produce 100,000 saplings which would be supplied to farmers at cheap rates. They would also be provided to the public schools, offices and hospitals.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 24^th, 2015.