Kano-The National Agency For Great Green Wall has flagged off its 2024 Tree Planting campaign in Kano communities to reduce menace of desertification in the state.
The newly appointed Director General of the Agency, Saleh Abubakar flaged-off the exercise on Thursday in Fagwalawa Dashi, Danbatta local government area of Kano state.
The agency’s boss said the objectives of the tree planting was to avert Desertification and other environmental challenges affecting the area.
Represented by acting director, afforestation and land management, Auwalu Yunusa, said the tree planting campaign was flag -off in all the eleven frontline states NAGGW was working.
He said the aim of the program was to restore the degraded land and also to curtail the menace of desertification and improve soil fertility.
“We are planting trees on 176 Hectares of land which involves two hundred seedlings of different species,” he explained.
Earlier, the state coordinator /Field officer, Kano office, Ahmad Mukhtar, said the direct tree planting would play a vital role in reviving the degraded land.
He stressed that numerous environmental challenges would be averted through the program.
Mukhtar explained that the community were fully participating in the program which the secret behind the success of the tree plantation nationwide.
The coordinator commended the commitment and dedication of the New Director General of the Agency for being prompt in Flagging Off this year’s tree planting program in all the eleven Frontline States.
The field officer who decried felling of trees, described cutting down of trees as a major threat to many environments.
The community leader of Dama, Malam Isah Shuaibu commended the Agency for planting four different species of trees in the area.
Shaibu who lauded the agency for the gesture, said that the exercise would go along way in tackling desertification and climate change in the area.
