The Northern Provincial Council's Agriculture and Environment Minister P. Ayngaranesan said action is underway to ensure 100,000 trees are planted in the month of November, declaring it the first of an annual tree planting month.
A motion proposed by Ayngaranesan was accepted and passed by Chief Minister C. V. Wigneswaran, ensuring the tradition would be carried on every year in the North from the 1st of November until November 30th, reports Uthayan.
The absence of rainfall has caused a drought in the Northern Province, contributing to a lack of trees according to researchers. With the latest proposal, vegetable producers would be called in for discussions with the Northern Provincial Council to discuss problems that they faced as well as for them to be given priority when procuring trees to be planted.
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