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‘It is necessary to have combination of shrubs, flowers, timber and canopy in building forest’

Expressing his opposition to the plain adoption of Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki’s system of planting, industrialist-turned-green activist Radhakrishna K. Nair said it is necessary to plant local saplings that include shrubs, flowers, timber and canopy in an area. Mr. Nari, 53, a native of Sullia taluk in Dakshina Kannada, is credited with developing 121 urban forest patches across the country, including the Smriti Vana in 470 acres of Bhujia Hills in Bhuj region of Gujarat. Speaking at the 20th ‘Press Club Guest of Honour’ programme organised by the Mangaluru Press Club on Tuesday, Mr. Nair referred to greening for developing Smriti Vana, which is in homage to 13,000 victims of the Gujarat earthquake. Mr. Nair said he took up greening in 2012 after noticing the cutting down of massive trees in Umargam in Gujarat, where he moved from Sullia and set up a garment export unit. Citing the success of greening stretches along the coast in Maharashtra and Gujarat, Mr. Nair said greening alone is a solution to problem of sea erosion noticed in Mangaluru and other parts of Karnataka coastline.

The Hindu
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