New Vision gives out tree seeds
Mar 22, 2007
The New Vision yesterday started giving out eucalyptus tree seeds, in an effort to encourage agro-forestry.
By Geresom Musamali
The New Vision yesterday started giving out eucalyptus tree seeds, in an effort to encourage agro-forestry.
The seeds, provided by the National Forestry Authority’s Tree Seed Centre, are packaged in 10 gram sachets. Each sachet contains seeds of about 2,000 trees.
To claim them, The New Vision readers are required to get a coupon from Page 32 of yesterday’s newspaper and present it at the company’s head office or agents countrywide. Each coupon entitles a reader to one sachet of the seeds.
The exercise is part of the activities to mark the International Forestry Day that fall yesterday.
“We hope to distribute about eight million seeds. We would like to identify ourselves with the efforts to plant more trees and to conserve our environment,†the circulation manager, Danny Kawuma, said.
Eucalyptus trees grow well in many parts of the country. They also survive in waterlogged conditions.
Beneficiaries have, however, been requested not to plant the seeds in wetlands because it destroys them.
Eucalyptus trees grow quickly and provide building poles and firewood within three to five years. They make good timber at 15 years.
Meanwhile, conservationists have embarked on a campaign to stop the consumption of the Sugar Corporation of Uganda, Lugazi products.
This follows reports that the Cabinet is in the process of degazetting part of the Mabira Forest Reserve to give it to SCOUL to plant sugarcane plantations.
The campaign messages, sent by email and SMS, are urging receivers to send them again to at least five other people.
The New Vision yesterday started giving out eucalyptus tree seeds, in an effort to encourage agro-forestry.
The seeds, provided by the National Forestry Authority’s Tree Seed Centre, are packaged in 10 gram sachets. Each sachet contains seeds of about 2,000 trees.
To claim them, The New Vision readers are required to get a coupon from Page 32 of yesterday’s newspaper and present it at the company’s head office or agents countrywide. Each coupon entitles a reader to one sachet of the seeds.
The exercise is part of the activities to mark the International Forestry Day that fall yesterday.
“We hope to distribute about eight million seeds. We would like to identify ourselves with the efforts to plant more trees and to conserve our environment,†the circulation manager, Danny Kawuma, said.
Eucalyptus trees grow well in many parts of the country. They also survive in waterlogged conditions.
Beneficiaries have, however, been requested not to plant the seeds in wetlands because it destroys them.
Eucalyptus trees grow quickly and provide building poles and firewood within three to five years. They make good timber at 15 years.
Meanwhile, conservationists have embarked on a campaign to stop the consumption of the Sugar Corporation of Uganda, Lugazi products.
This follows reports that the Cabinet is in the process of degazetting part of the Mabira Forest Reserve to give it to SCOUL to plant sugarcane plantations.
The campaign messages, sent by email and SMS, are urging receivers to send them again to at least five other people.