The North Dayi District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr. Edmond Kudjoh Atta, has emphasised the need for the people in the area to adopt the culture of maintenance in relation to the tree planting exercise under the Green Ghana Project, which would go a long way to make the exercise more effective and profitable.
Mr. Atta observed that the Green Ghana Project would become meaningless if Ghanaians, particularly the people in the North Dayi District, did not change their attitude towards government-related projects, stressing on the need for all to show greater commitment to the Green Ghana Project by ensuring that trees would not only be planted, but nurtured to grow.
The DCE, who said this when he addressed the people, prior to the commencement of the 2022 tree planting exercise in the District at Vakpo, said the North Dayi would distinguish itself in the exercise by planting along the major roads, open spaces, schools and degraded lands in the area.
He disclosed that the Assembly had put in place measures since last year to ensure that everybody participated in the Green Ghana Project, by instituting an award scheme at the basic school level in the District to reward the best pupil who had grown and nurtured trees to grow in their respective schools.
Mr. Atta explained that the same award system had been instituted in the various communities, where chiefs, queenmothers, assembly members and residents of the various communities would plant a tree each, nurture and own them in order to ensure that they would be taken care of adequately thereby ensuring a high survival rate.
The DCE noted that the District had, so far, planted 12,000 trees, and more would be planted to meet the envisioned target, which included, avenue trees, fruit trees like mango and orange, and timber, which had economic values apart from beautification.
He continued that under the tree planting programme in schools, it was strategically planned that schools should plant trees along their boundaries as a way of preventing encroachers from developing their lands, and urged teachers to seriously monitor the exercise in their respective institutions so as to make the exercise more effective.
Mr. Atta commended the staff and management of the Anfoega Senior High School (SHS) for their commitment to the Green Ghana Project, which had made the institution to distinguish itself in the exercise.
The North Dayi DCE also used the day to inspect the level of growth of the trees planted last year and expressed satisfaction with the high level, including the one he personally planted.
The Headmaster of Anfoega Senior High School, Mr. Albert Dodo, commended the DCE, saying the high interest he had shown in the Green Ghana Project motivated the school to extend the project to the planting of economic trees that would help generate income for the school.
Mr. Dodo explained that the school had planted cashew, and was putting in place measures to add coconut cultivation, adding that since the institution offered Agriculture Science as a subject.
