The day of June 9 has been designated as Green Ghana Day in 2023.
The day has been set aside for planting different kinds and species of trees, from decorative to commercially valuable, shrubby, and fruitful.
The national climate change reversal exercise's 2023 planting, which will be its third iteration, aims to plant 10 million trees nationwide.
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, would launch Green Ghana Day next month at the Great Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, according to the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources (MLNR), Samuel Abu Jinapor, who announced the day at a press conference yesterday.
Background
The government established Green Ghana Day in 2021 under the direction of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources as a part of a vigorous project of reforestation and afforestation to replace the nation's lost forest cover.
Over seven million trees were planted at the inaugural event, exceeding the five million-tree goal.
More than 24 million trees were planted last year, surpassing the goal of 20 million.
According to the ministry, the decrease in the number of trees for this year's exercise to 10 million is intended to provide over 23 million trees with more care and resources to boost their survival rate.
first edition
"We set a goal of five million trees for the first edition." More than seven million trees were planted thanks to your help.
Last year, we set a higher bar for ourselves and aimed to plant at least 20 million trees.
Again, thanks to your help, more than 24 million trees were planted, increasing the total number of trees planted throughout the years to more than 31 million, according to Mr. Jinapor.
He said that the most recent field assessment report revealed that, on average, there were 72 per Compared to 81% in 2021, the year of the program's launch, there was a 1% survival rate last year.
Measures
While sufficient safeguards had been put in place to guarantee the life of every tree planted, a variety of outside circumstances, according to Mr. Jinapor, were responsible for the survival rate.
He listed some of them: wildfires, rainfall patterns, and soil fertility.
The minister said that "it is for this reason that this year, we have revised our target downwards to 10 million trees," despite the fact that the survival rate indicated that there were still over 23 million trees to nurture.
According to Mr. Jinapor, this would give the opportunity to maintain momentum in the effort to rehabilitate the damaged environment while allocating some resources and care to the trees that were planted during the previous two years.
"The administration anticipates that we will receive the customary overwhelming support this year to build on the achievements made in 2021 and 2022," he added.
He pointed out that the purpose of this year's theme, "Our Forests, Our Health," was to emphasize the value of forests to people's lives and to remind them of this.
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