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Collectors urged to protect saplings
The Agriculture Minister said that the municipalities should make these tree guard fences with their funds as there funds were not available under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) for this. He said that the fences should be setup using gum and thorny bushes around plants to prevent grazing by cattle.
Nizamabad: Minister for Agriculture and Cooperatives Pocharam Srinivas Reddy suggested to the District Collectors to make arrangements for setting up fences around each every sapling that was planted in the State under the Haritha Haram programme.
Participating in a video conference from the Nizamabad Collectorate on Tuesday, he said that a tree guard with an iron wire at a cost of Rs 110 each would be set-up around the saplings on an experimental basis in Banswada. With an iron wire of 24 kg, ten tree guards could be arranged, he added.
The Agriculture Minister said that the municipalities should make these tree guard fences with their funds as there funds were not available under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) for this. He said that the fences should be setup using gum and thorny bushes around plants to prevent grazing by cattle.
Pocharam said that in barren lands and rocky areas where it was not possible to irrigate and cultivate crops, horticultural gardens and orchids should be grown.
The poor families should take up the responsibility of growing fruits and gardens in the rural areas and the government would provide funds, he added.
The Agriculture Minister said that the toddy tappers’ societies should take up the planting of palmyra palm trees along the tank bunds to protect the toddy tappers from consuming spurious toddy or liquor In his speech, the Chief Secretary Rajiv Sharma told the District Collectors.
that micro-plans have to be chalked out to protect the saplings planted under the Haritha Haram programme for at least two years. A monitoring committee should be set-up at the field level, he added.
District Collector Yogitha Rana said that 75 per cent of the 3.35 crore saplings fixed for the district were already planted. Among the 718 village panchayats in the district, 40,000 saplings were already planted in the 181 gram panchayats, she added.
She said that arrangements were made for conducting a social audit by the students of Giriraj College on the Haritha Haram programme.
Zilla Parishad Chairman D Raju, Joint Collector A Ravinder Reddy and others were present.
