From barren & dry to lush green: Firozabad dist admin, locals develop micro-forest along Lucknow-Agra e-way
Hindustan TimesLUCKNOW Once a stretch of barren non-fertile land, an area of five acres has now become Firozabad’s first line of defence against pollution. In less than five years, the Firozabad district administration, along with the help of locals, has been able to transform the dry and termite-infested land along the Lucknow-Agra expressway by turning it into a micro-forest. “The saplings have now become trees and biodiversity is flourishing,” says Prabhat Mishra, the then assistant director, National Savings, Firozabad. While the idea was extremely challenging given the land profile, she requisitioned local support, and asked a local farmer Rambabu to look after the project when it was limited to one acre.” Equipped with some traditional knowledge of how to manage plants in dry and termite-infested areas, Rambabu regularly poured a turmeric and sugar solution into the roots of the saplings to hydrate and protect them from pests. There are some mango trees as well even as not all the mango saplings survived,” said Prabhat Mishra, who visited the micro-forest just last week.
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