Locals urged to grow sh7m trees
Jul 29, 2010
LOCAL leaders in Nyabushozi county in Kiruhura district have been urged to popularise the growing of Tectonous Grandise trees, the world’s most expensive tree.
By Abdulkarim Ssengendo
LOCAL leaders in Nyabushozi county in Kiruhura district have been urged to popularise the growing of Tectonous Grandise trees, the world’s most expensive tree.
The call was made on Monday by Col. Fred Mwesigye, the managing director of the National Enterprise Corporation, at a seminar he organised for over 200 participants. They included leaders from churches and mosques, political leaders, civil servants and others from geographical societies.
Mwesigye said the seminar was meant to show the leaders that tree-planting is important as it protects the environment and is an investment.
He told the participants that the tree is used in aeroplane and ship building, and in the manufacture of gun-butts. It is one of the most important timbers in the world, he added.
Mwesigye pointed out that a cubic metre of the tree costs $3,500 (sh7m) when exported.
The director of the Dragon Agro-forestry Programme, Isa Abu Arita, said the trees were doing well in Kiruhura.
He explained that the Tectonous tree was developed in southern Sudan by a German forestry team in the early 1950s.
In Uganda, he said, the trees grow in West Nile, parts of Lira and Gulu and it has been introduced in Luwero, Kamuli, Mityana Rakai and Masaka districts.
LOCAL leaders in Nyabushozi county in Kiruhura district have been urged to popularise the growing of Tectonous Grandise trees, the world’s most expensive tree.
The call was made on Monday by Col. Fred Mwesigye, the managing director of the National Enterprise Corporation, at a seminar he organised for over 200 participants. They included leaders from churches and mosques, political leaders, civil servants and others from geographical societies.
Mwesigye said the seminar was meant to show the leaders that tree-planting is important as it protects the environment and is an investment.
He told the participants that the tree is used in aeroplane and ship building, and in the manufacture of gun-butts. It is one of the most important timbers in the world, he added.
Mwesigye pointed out that a cubic metre of the tree costs $3,500 (sh7m) when exported.
The director of the Dragon Agro-forestry Programme, Isa Abu Arita, said the trees were doing well in Kiruhura.
He explained that the Tectonous tree was developed in southern Sudan by a German forestry team in the early 1950s.
In Uganda, he said, the trees grow in West Nile, parts of Lira and Gulu and it has been introduced in Luwero, Kamuli, Mityana Rakai and Masaka districts.