Informants / Kermanshah Referring to the accepted process for implementing the country’s popular plan to plant a billion trees, the deputy director of forest affairs at the country’s Natural Resources and Watershed Organization said, “We are not behind schedule until this time of the year.”
Naghi Shabanian, this evening (July 6), on the sidelines of the meeting of the general managers of the natural resources of the provinces of the two countries in Kermanshah, in the presence of correspondents, referring to the implementation of the popular plan for the station. One billion trees in the country in a four-year period, he said: This plan began to be implemented in March in the country last year, and it is planned to produce and plant 250 million seedlings in the country every year.
Referring to the accepted process of implementing the popular plan to plant a billion trees in the country, he said, “So far, 210 million seedlings have been produced in the country, and we are not behind the plan.”
The deputy director of forest affairs at the country’s Natural Resources and Watershed Management Organization continued: There was concern that we would not be able to produce 250 million seedlings to plant a billion trees in the country every year, but fortunately, with the country’s good infrastructure in the field of nurseries, it has been solve this concern.
Referring to the consideration of a 30% stake for planting wood in the implementation of the people’s plan to plant a billion trees in the country, Shabanian said: 300 million seedlings must be planted in the form of a plan to plant wood in the country, but due to the good reception by people, the share of the project is likely to reach more from 500 million seedlings.
He stated that in implementing the popular plan to plant a billion trees, attention must be paid to the quality of work in addition to the quantity, and he said: In the process of producing and planting seedlings of special species from the same region, it must be used in each region, for example in the Zagros region, among the three types of oak that are present Iranian oak species, which possess more than twice the absorption of fine dust than other species, should be sown.
He continued that special attention will be given to the Zagros provinces in implementing the popular plan to plant a billion seedlings, and the Kermanshah province’s share in implementing the popular plan to plant a billion seedlings was announced with eight million seedlings. He added that the share of the province will probably reach 10 million trees, and we will increase.
We are among the countries with few forests in the world
According to the informants, Shabanian went on to describe the state of forests in the country, saying that we have 14.3 million hectares of forests in the country, and said: Only 8.7% of the country’s area is devoted to forests, and we are among the countries with the few forests in the world.
Shabani explained that Iran’s forests are not of good quality: With the exception of two million hectares of hyracan forests, the rest of the country’s forests are not of high quality.
He went on to say that the per capita share of green spaces in the country ranges between six and seven square meters per person, and said: We are trying to increase the per capita share to 15 square meters, especially in cities with a population of more than 50,000, within a period of 10 years.
He stated: The global standard for per capita green space in the world is more than 20 square metres.
In Kermanshah, a meeting of the general directors of natural resources of the two regions was held in the presence of the general directors of eleven Zagros provinces.
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