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This year's plantation drive is also about ensuring the protection of saplings planted by arranging for regular watering and tree guards, said forest minister Arun Kumar Saxena. Commercial, educational, and social institutes are being requested to serve as tree guards. Banking sector and other organisations too have been asked to adopt plantation sites and provide for irrigation under the drive, he said.
The plantation sites will be geotagged. Plantation 2025 will also promote agroforestry wherein farmers will be given saplings of timber, medicinal, fruit-bearing, and fodder-yielding species to plant on agricultural and private land. TNN
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