PHCC contributes to the afforestation in Khammam district, Telengana

The Haritha greening programme announced by the Chief Minister of Telengana, Chandrashekar Rao, was very ambitious with a plan to plant 50 lakh saplings. Many departments, including the Integrated Tribal Development Agency as well as the Forest Department were asked to raise plants in the nursery and have planting material ready in time. The only drawback in this grand venture was that a majority of the plants were of eucalyptus.

The Palni Hills Conservation Council contributed to this greening programme by raising plants appropriated to the Khammam terrain; the plants were mainly of tropical dry evergreen species and totalled about 30,000. They were transported in 3 trucks from Dindigul to
Khammam and unloaded in good shape. A worry of such long distance transportation of plants is that of a breakdown of the truck: the plants cannot be easily watered as they are stacked in such a way that the lowest rows are inaccessible. However, this did not happen.

The Forest Department in Telengana called the PHCC to thank them for the selection of the various species as well as the careful loading, transportation and unloading of the plants which reached them with hardly any damage. Below in photographs are the steps involved in such long distance transport of plants!