Dawa, June 19, GNA-About 3,000 trees are expected to be planted in the various electoral areas in the Ningo-Prampram District under the government’s Green Ghana initiative, Mr. Prince Ofori Boateng, District Agriculture Officer has disclosed.
Mr Boateng said the Forestry Commission had provided the district with approximately 3,000 seedlings made up of species including Mahogany, Visual Palm, coconut, orange, and militia.
He said this when Mr Al-Latiff Tetteh Amanor, Ningo-Prampram District Chief Executive, and Alhaji Mohamed Avona, Coordinating Director of the Ningo-Prampram District Assembly (NiPDA) together with other dignitaries planted trees at Dawa to launch the Green Ghana Project.
Mr. Amanor, described the Green Ghana initiative as finding a lasting solution to the global climate change challenges.“These trees are medicinal and were used by our forefathers before the introduction of orthodox medications. Plants have several benefits; therefore, we must protect them, » he stated.
Nene Duamor XI, Chief of Dawa, said the tree planting exercise would help us grow the country’s diminishing vegetation, indicating that people had cut trees that were planted some years ago and used as charcoal and firewood, a situation he acknowledged created many environmental problems for lives and property.
Madam Evelyn Nani, Ningo-Prampram District Environmental Officer, on her part indicated that tree planting was important in environmental health as it had been accepted that “when the last tree dies, the last man also dies.”
Madam Nani said the trees were important because of the carbon dioxide and other gases humans emitted into the environment, which the trees absorbed.
She noted that such gases were harmful to the health of humans, and were also a cause of climate change, therefore the need to plant more trees to absorb them.
“But with the trees, remittance to these gases absorbs the carbon dioxide and then revitalizes the environment for us. It is ideal because that is the only way we would curb the pollution and climate change that is happening worldwide,” she said.
