NOIDA: The UP forest department will geo-tag tree plantation for the first time. A massive plantation drive, planned for August 15 under the mandate of chief minister
Yogi Adityanath, will be continuously monitored for sapling growth for the next one year from an aerial
satellite to register the success or failure of the drive.
The forest department said that with sapling plantation and its success always questioned on the survival rates of the plant, this time a scientific approach had been adapted to map the growth of the
saplings once they are planted. It is expected that 4.22 lakh saplings will be planted on August 15.
“The UP government will plant 9.16 crore saplings till 2019. On August 15, 5.3 crore trees will be planted across the state,” said a senior officer of the Noida Authority’s
horticulture department.
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