Farmers to get 1.77 lakh saplings

The district administration will distribute 1.77 lakh saplings at a nominal price of ₹15 per sapling to farmers for fetching them additional income, employment and to conserve environment.In a press r

The district administration will distribute 1.77 lakh saplings at a nominal price of ₹15 per sapling to farmers for fetching them additional income, employment and to conserve environment.

In a press release, Collector J. Meghanath Reddy said that ₹ 26.67 lakh has been allocated under Mission on Sustainable Green Cover in Farmlands for the year 2020-21. The scheme is meant to encourage farmers in growing trees in their farm lands for which 77,800 saplings would be distributed in the first phase. Among the sapling would be teak, acacia, maghogany, marudhu, neem, wild neem, red sanders, pungam, vengai and sandal.

Interested farmers can register themselves with the nearest agricultural extension centre and based on the recommendation of the Department of Agriculture they can get saplings from Nursery of Department of Forests in Srivilliputtur free of cost. Under sapling plantation on bunds, 50 saplings would be given for each acre and for planting saplings on the land, 160 saplings per acre would be given.