Let’s Plant… For A Green Future”…. Integrated forestry reforestation campaign

The Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform has implemented integrated afforestation campaigns, including cultivation and care, assessment of the sites that have been forested with all types of forest and fruit trees, as well as monitoring, caring for and protecting them from spoilers, and providing everything necessary to ensure their success as a base for a future forest that contributes to the expansion of the green area and the restoration of the surrounding natural forests.

In a statement to SANA, the Director of Forestry, Dr. Ali Thabet, noted the importance of community participation represented by community institutions, grass-roots bodies and organizations and government agencies, in increasing green space by contributing to afforestation campaigns, so as to enshrine the concept of sustainability in planting the forest tree that contributes to coping with climate change, supporting the national economy and food security and promoting biodiversity.

Thabet explained that in conjunction with the celebration of the 71st Tree Day, which marks the last Thursday of 2022, which is celebrated this year under the slogan “Let’s plant… for a green future”, the Ministry launched national afforestation campaigns for the reforestation of new forest sites, rehabilitating burned and degraded trees and increasing the green spaces in Syria, where it is expected that more than one million plants will be planted in cooperation between ministries, institutions, international and local organizations, community-based institutions, federations, unions, schools, universities and community representatives; through their participation in the Ministry’s national afforestation campaigns from 1-11-2022 to 31-3-2023.

According to Thabet, the Ministry has requested all participants in the afforestation campaigns to adhere to the technical bases and rules that it has set for entering and departing the afforestation sites and the need to adopt the correct technical methods while planting.

Amal Farhat